The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFalsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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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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