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Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.
Condoleezza Rice
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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.
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I think it's very humble to believe that there is no man, woman or child who should live in tyranny. That people who say, well, maybe Arabs just aren't ready for democracy or maybe Africans just are going to have corrupt governments, that seems to me arrogant.
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I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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