The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFirst of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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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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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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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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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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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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Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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