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If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

Condoleezza Rice

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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Academic
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
Pedagogue
Pianist
Political Scientist
Politician
University Teacher
Birmingham
Alabama
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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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I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.
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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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I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.
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You know, I look at Vladimir Putin as somebody who is an eye-for-an-eye kind of person. We questioned the legitimacy of his election in 2012, Secretary Clinton did - rightly, by the way. It did have - it was quite fraudulent.And so I think he's saying now, I'm going to show you that I can do the same thing.
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I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
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Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.
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We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
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Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
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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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The PDB (Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.) does not say the United States is going to be attacked. It says Bin Laden would like to attack the United States. I don't think you, frankly, had to have that report to know that Bin Laden would like to attack the United States.
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When you're in government, of course, you have protection and you have people who are looking out for your wellbeing, but you can't live in a state of fear. If you do, you're not going to do your job very well and you're going to give yourself high blood pressure, which probably isn't worth it.
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But we do have confidence in our institutions. We are not Russia. We have an executive that is constrained. We have a legislature that is real. We have a press that is free. We have courts that are independent. This is not Russia.
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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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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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I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto.
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Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.
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We've got to get back to a sense of an American identity, and that identity is not nationality or religion or ethnicity. It is a particular idea, and that idea is that you should live in liberty and you should be able to pursue happiness.
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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.
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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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