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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: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Birmingham
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I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor.
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I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.
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Well, there are many things, whenever you look back, that you would've done differently. We're all human. We do our best at the time. I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country. We came close, but we couldn't.
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It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.
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So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.
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It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups
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Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.
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I'm a great believer in the fact that as you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have, or what their nationality is, or where they came from. And I think that's how Americans really do relate to each other on a personal level.
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I have several [favorite clothes designers], but I like to wear Akris, Oscar De La Renta and Giorgio Armani.
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U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.
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it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.
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[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.
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America cannot do most of what needs to be done alone. You need friends. And we have good friends around the world. We have friends with whom we share values in Europe and Asia - thanks to the forward march of democracy - in Latin America, in Africa, and increasingly in the Middle East.
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We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.
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We have our differences with Russia. And some of those differences produce conflict. But by no means is this the Soviet Union. We have far more areas of cooperation with Russia than we have areas of conflict.
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To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.
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My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.
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There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.
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We can't live true to our set of values unless American educational system is strong. I really believe that if we don't get that right we will not compete because we won't believe that our people can compete, and we'll turn inward. We won't lead. That will be bad for the world.
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But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do with, you know, arms belonging to the state, not to -- not in private hands. The current circumstances come out of what I think is a very important and indeed appropriate action that the Iraqi government has taken.
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