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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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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.
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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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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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Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something about, you really have difficulty unless the international community really mobilizes.
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I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.
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I have constantly told people that I was Secretary of State and I was not going to get into a partisan debate. And I would vote my ballot in a secret way, as all Americans do. But I just want to acknowledge that after the election took place, it was a special time for Americans.
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The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
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You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.
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It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].
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We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run for office, to express their views without fear and to pursue political causes. We would welcome the progress, prosperity and freedom of the Iranian people.
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