The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFascism 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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTLife is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTAmong those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFirst of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThis was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI 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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTAs a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWhile democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI 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 ALBRIGHTHistorian 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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT