The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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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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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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