Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTUntil I am carried out, I will carry on.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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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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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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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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