Arab spring Quote by Madeleine Albright

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“There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.”

Madeleine Albright

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In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in…

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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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Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

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I am by nature a worried optimist.

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If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.

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None of us is certain about the outcome of the Arab Spring.

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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

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Some socialist movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, for instance, were genuine. I was making films about the so-called Arab Spring, and I'm well…

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We are living in a world in which developments are harder to predict and one that has become more uncertain. In such a world,…

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The first question that I ask : do I have public support or not. That is the first question that I asked as President. If I don't have the public support, whether there's the so-called "Arab spring" - it's not spring, anyway - but whether we have this or we don't, if you don't have public support, you have to…

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“Our daily routines influence the lives of people and animals halfway across the world, and some personal gestures can unexpectedly set the entire world…

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There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the…

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One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.

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I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I think the…

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I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five…

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