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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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 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.
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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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The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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