Madeleine Albright - Fascism - A Warning

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: “WE ARE WHO WE WERE”

“We young people”: Viktor Orbán, quoted in Timothy Garton Ash, The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (New York: Vintage, 1990), 51.

“a xenophobic, anti-democratic nationalist”: Carol Giacomo, “A Democracy Road Trip Through Hungary,” New York Times , July 1, 2017.

“morning, evening and night”: Ferenc Gyurcsány, quoted in Pablo Gorondi, “Hungary’s Prime Minister in Trouble over Leaked Recording,” Associated Press, September 18, 2006.

“mafia state”: George Soros, quoted in Palko Karasz, “George Soros Accuses Viktor Orban of Turning Hungary into ‘Mafia State,’” New York Times , June 1, 2017.

“disease and parasites”: Jarosław Kaczyński, quoted in Henry Foy, “Poland’s Kingmaker,” Financial Times , February 26, 2016.

“bring Budapest to Warsaw”: Kaczyński, Polish TVN24, October 9, 2011.

“You are scoundrels”: Kaczyński, quoted in Rick Lyman, “In Poland, an Assault on the Courts Provokes Outrage,” New York Times , July 19, 2017.

“the worst sort of Poles”: Kaczyński, quoted in Monika Scislowska, “Divisive Polish Party Leader Kaczynski Pulls the Strings,” Associated Press, February 7, 2017.

“terrified of not living in a free country”: Paulina Wilk, quoted in Isaac Stanley-Becker, “Led by Populist Law and Justice Party, Polish Parliament Moves to Strip Supreme Court of Independence,” Washington Post , July 23, 2017.

“There will be no peace”: Jean Monnet, remarks to the French Committee of National Liberation, August 5, 1943.

“One of the reasons European citizens are stepping away”: Jean-Claude Juncker, remarks to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, April 19, 2016.

“I see Islam as a foreign body”: Alexander Gauland, quoted in Guy Chazan, “Gauland Struggles to Tame Germany’s Wayward AfD,” Financial Times , July 22, 2017.

“one hears echoes of classical fascist themes”: Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism , 185–86.

“Czech Trump”: Milos Zeman, quoted in Griff Witte, “‘Czech Trump’ Wins Second Term as President,” Washington Post , January 28, 2018.

“The masses arriving from other civilizations”: Viktor Orbán, Address to the Nation, Budapest, Hungary, March 15, 2016.

“The most effective form of persuasion”: Josef Goebbels, quoted in Rory Sutherland, “The Hitler Guide to Rigging a Referendum,” The Spectator , May 11, 2013.

“Once you have given citizenship”: Roman legislator, quoted in Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (London: W.W. Norton, 2015), 237.

“We are who we were”: Orbán, speech in Budapest, March 15, 2016.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: “THE LEADER WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US”

“If we have to go to war”: Mun Hyok-myong, quoted in Nicholas Kristof, “War Drums Inside the North,” New York Times , October 8, 2017.

“Rocket Man… on a suicide mission”: Donald J. Trump, address to the UN General Assembly, September 19, 2017.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

“All Europe is for us”: Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Stacy Schiff, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (New York: Henry Holt, 2005), 64.

“The American question”: Giuseppe Garibaldi, quoted in Don H. Doyle, The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War (New York: Basic Books, 2015), 299.

“The beginnings of a great new social order”: Adolf Hitler, quoted ibid., 10.

“millions of Redskins”: Hitler, quoted in James Whitman, “Why the Nazis Loved America,” Time , March 21, 2017.

“though often to heedless”: John Quincy Adams, speech before the U.S. House of Representatives, July 4, 1821.

“Shut up, silly woman”: Donald J. Trump, remarks at Make America Great Again rally, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 29, 2017. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/29/se.02.html.

“peace invulnerable to the schemings”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Washington, D.C., June 6, 1944.

“I’ll supply the dead bodies”: Duterte, quoted in The Duterte Manifesto (Quezon City, Philippines: ABS-CBN Publishing, 2016), 40.

“unbelievable job”: Trump quoted in Michael Gerson, “Trump’s Embrace of Strongmen Is a Very Bad Strategy,” Washington Post , June 22, 2017.

“fantastic”: Trump, quoted ibid.

“there won’t be strain”: Trump, quoted ibid.

“was a bad guy”: Trump, campaign rally, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 6, 2016.

“You have to give him credit”: Trump, campaign rally, Ottumwa, Iowa, January 9, 2016.

“a man so highly respected”: Trump, quoted in Jeremy Diamond, “Timeline: Donald Trump’s Praise for Vladimir Putin,” CNN, July 29, 2016.

“bad, very bad”: Trump, quoted in Anthony Faiola, “The Germans Are ‘Bad, Very Bad’: Trump’s Alleged Slight Generates Confusion, Backlash,” Washington Post , May 26, 2017.

“slaps the right people”: Nikki Haley, press briefing, White House, September 14, 2017.

a “clear message”: Phay Siphan, quoted in Mike Ives, “Cambodian Government Cites Trump in Threatening Foreign News Outlets,” New York Times , February 28, 2017.

“If the president of the United States”: Chinese People’s Daily , quoted in “Autocrats Across the Globe Echo Trump’s ‘Fake News’ Swipes,” New York Times , December 13, 2017.

“When the world looks at how bad”: Trump, interviewed by David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman, “Donald Trump on NATO, Turkey’s Coup Attempt and the World,” New York Times , July 21, 2016.

“For decades our country”: Trump, remarks at Make America Great Again rally, Harrisburg.

“been disrespected, mocked and ripped off”: Trump, interviewed by David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman, “Donald Trump Expounds on His Foreign Policy Views,” New York Times , March 26, 2016.

“every decision on trade”: Trump, Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2017.

“I will always put America first”: Trump, address to the UN General Assembly, New York, September 19, 2017.

“clear-eyed outlook that the world”: H. R. McMaster and Gary Cohn, “America First Doesn’t Mean America Alone,” Wall Street Journal , May 30, 2017.

“So I go to Poland”: Trump, interviewed by Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, and Maggie Haberman, “Excerpts from the Times’s Interview with Trump,” New York Times , July 19, 2017.

“I’m the only one”: Trump, interviewed by Laura Ingraham, The Ingraham Angle , Fox News, November 2, 2017.

“I’m a very instinctual person”: Trump, interviewed by Michael Scherer, Time , March 23, 2017.

“a very stable genius”: Trump, quoted in David Nakamura and Karen Tumulty, “Trump Defends Fitness for Office,” Washington Post , January 7, 2018.

“somewhat over”: Angela Merkel, quoted in Samuel Osborne, “Angela Merkel Says Germany Can No Longer Rely on Donald Trump’s America,” Independent (UK), May 28, 2017.

“not just through the terror”: Primo Levi, quoted in Stanislao Pugliese, “A Specter Haunting America: Trump and Italian Fascism,” La Voce di New York , November 20, 2016.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: BAD DREAMS

“haughty millionaires who are gathering up the riches”: James B. Weaver, A Call to Action (Des Moines: Iowa Printing Co., 1892), 6.

“Every Man a King”: Huey P. Long, “Share Our Wealth,” national radio address, February 23, 1934.