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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTEspecially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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I 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.
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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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