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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFirst of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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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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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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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 main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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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 answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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