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United States Ambassador To The United Nations Inspirational Quotes (96)

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Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.
Susan Rice
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It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.
Susan Rice
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President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.
Susan Rice
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The youth thing never really, from my vantage point, slowed me down. I think the harder audience for me to gain acceptance from was the career diplomatic corps that worked with and for me in the Africa Bureau.
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I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention they are in fact inextricably linked.
Susan Rice
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I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
Susan Rice
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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.
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If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.
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We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.
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We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.
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I like to think that with me, what you see is what you get, and you can like or dislike it, it's up to you, but it's straight. That's something that I pride myself on.
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The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.
Susan Rice
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What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
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For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.
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I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I don't feel a need to apologize for doing or saying something that I think needs to be said, just because it may not sit comfortably with somebody else.
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I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just treated me as they would anybody else. They had to deal with me as a representative of the United States of America, and the United States of America was too important to be dismissed or ignored on any grounds.
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And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.
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Mr. President, we've taken off our Kick Me sign.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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