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I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.
Condoleezza Rice
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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Academic
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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Birmingham
Alabama
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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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I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race.
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I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor.
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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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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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Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
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We still go out and elect people who we think are going to govern and better our interests. So we may not have the same confidence in the people we elect, but we still go out and elect them.
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I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.
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Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.
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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'm not personally fearful, but I look out, and there are a number of things that concern me, and I'm hopeful that we can overcome them.
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I've never really been a workaholic.
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There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.
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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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I use the word power broadly. Even more important than military and economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.
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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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