First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI 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.
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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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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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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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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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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 more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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 voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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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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