Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTPainful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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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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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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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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