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.
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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Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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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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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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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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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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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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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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