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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: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
Politician
Screenwriter
United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
Change
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Progress

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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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What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.
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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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I don't get drunk, I get a little happy on rare occasion, and I'm probably dancing if I'm that happy.
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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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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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I like to think that with me, what you see is what you get, and you can like or dislike it, it's up to you, but it's straight. That's something that I pride myself on.
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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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Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.
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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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The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
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I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I don't feel a need to apologize for doing or saying something that I think needs to be said, just because it may not sit comfortably with somebody else.
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The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.
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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.
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Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.
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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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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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