There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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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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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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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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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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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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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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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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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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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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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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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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 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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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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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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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