It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWilson’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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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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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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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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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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The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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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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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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If 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?
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