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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.
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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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I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.
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I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.
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No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president can support an Egypt that doesn't fully recognize women's rights or the rights of religious minorities.
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Most days are not overwhelmingly successful in your life. And what really marks whether you're going to be successful is how well you deal with the bad days, not how well you deal with the good ones.
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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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We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
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I think it's very humble to believe that there is no man, woman or child who should live in tyranny. That people who say, well, maybe Arabs just aren't ready for democracy or maybe Africans just are going to have corrupt governments, that seems to me arrogant.
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I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
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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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Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.
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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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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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[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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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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I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.
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Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
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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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The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
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