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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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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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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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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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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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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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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 are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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