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

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Susan Rice
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
Politician
Screenwriter
United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
Change
Make
Drive
Progress

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We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.
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Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention they are in fact inextricably linked.
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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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Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.
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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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Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.
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Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria.
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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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Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.
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I think it's very, very important that in foreign policy and national security decision making, as in any other realm, that there be a range of diversity that reflects the full complexity of America. We should draw on those experiences to inform our decision making.
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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 am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
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It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.
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I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.
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I have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
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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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I'm not watching any TV shows, frankly.
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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
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There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.
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