I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIt is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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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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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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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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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 do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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