Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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Painful 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.
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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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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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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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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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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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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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