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

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Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.
Susan Rice
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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
Susan Rice
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I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.
Susan Rice
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Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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It's in our interest to continue with the Paris Agreement and to deal with climate change as the real threat it actually is.
Susan Rice
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We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
Susan Rice
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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
Susan Rice
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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
Susan Rice
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President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.
Susan Rice
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What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.
Susan Rice
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Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.
Susan Rice
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Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset
Susan Rice
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A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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I am straight forward I am not manipulative I am not two-faced. And I think that that has served me well in all of my roles, particularly as a diplomat, because people knew if I said something, I meant it. If I said no, I meant no, and if I said we could make this work, we would make it work.
Susan Rice
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I have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
Susan Rice
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I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.
Susan Rice
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We have to know who we are and know what we believe.
Susan Rice
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I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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