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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
Politician
Screenwriter
United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
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If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.
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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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There are no cookie-cutter solutions that you can apply from one circumstance to another. They're different. Our interests, as implicated, are different. The tools we have at our disposal are different.
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What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.
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I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.
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It is manifestly in the interest of the United States to deal with the very real threat that climate change poses. And that's why President Obama has worked so hard to reduce our own emissions and to lead internationally in forging the Paris climate agreement.
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I do leisure reading but I don't get to do it like, at one in the morning. When I getting up at six in the morning, so I do most of my leisure reading on vacation and on airplanes and that sort of stuff.
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I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
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I am straight forward I am not manipulative I am not two-faced. And I think that that has served me well in all of my roles, particularly as a diplomat, because people knew if I said something, I meant it. If I said no, I meant no, and if I said we could make this work, we would make it work.
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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
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We have to know who we are and know what we believe.
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People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.
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The notion that -- which some people are trying to suggest, that by asking for the identity of an American person, that is the same as leaking it, is completely false. There's no equivalence between so-called unmasking and leaking.
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I am blunt sometimes I am diplomatic sometimes I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.
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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.
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