Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThere are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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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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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 voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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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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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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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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I 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.
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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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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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