Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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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 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.
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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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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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.
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Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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