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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWhatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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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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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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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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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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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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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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