Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTMcCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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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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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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