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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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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 main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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I 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.
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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 main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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