Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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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 was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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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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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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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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