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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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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 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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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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The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.
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I love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.
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I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind and Fire since the Seventies and of The Gap Band since the Eighties.
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Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.
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I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with minimal help, that we are going to be able to bring down the levels of our forces. And I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.
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Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.
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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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Out of struggle very often comes victory.
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it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.
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Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.
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I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it.
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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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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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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 need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
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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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We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
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