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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIf an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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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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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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, 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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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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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