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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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Birmingham
Alabama
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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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Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.
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Ultimately, we didn't go to Germany to create a democracy. We went to overthrow Adolf Hitler. But once a democracy was there, Germany was a much bigger supporter of and help to our national interests, both economic and security than had ever been before.
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I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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I'm a terrible long-term planner.
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As Americans we like to believe that we're loved in international politics or that people like what we're doing. But we also recognize that we have an extraordinary responsibility to do what we think is right, and that sometimes what we do is not very popular.
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If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
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Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.
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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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We can't afford to let the international community and the world lose faith in the diplomatic track.
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There have been plenty of markers that show that this [Iraq] is a country that is worth the investment, because once it emerges as a country that is a stabilising factor, you will have a very different kind of Middle East.
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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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I believe in having a private life.
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Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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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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