I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTMcCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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