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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThere is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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 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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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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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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I 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.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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