Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTMcCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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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 conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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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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Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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