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Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
Condoleezza Rice
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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.
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I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with minimal help, that we are going to be able to bring down the levels of our forces. And I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.
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We still go out and elect people who we think are going to govern and better our interests. So we may not have the same confidence in the people we elect, but we still go out and elect them.
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My Fox guys, I love every single one of them.
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This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.
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The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.
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Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.
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Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.
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If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.
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When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.
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There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.
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If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.
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it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.
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Out of struggle very often comes victory.
Condoleezza Rice
You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.
Condoleezza Rice
I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.
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It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.
Condoleezza Rice
I love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.
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As secretary of state it's been an enormous honor to represent this great country that I love so much - I have really seen that our great strengths are in the ability of people to reach their potential here.
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It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
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