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Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
Politician
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United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
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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 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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President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.
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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 was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.
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I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just treated me as they would anybody else. They had to deal with me as a representative of the United States of America, and the United States of America was too important to be dismissed or ignored on any grounds.
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I have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
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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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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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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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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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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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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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I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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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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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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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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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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Iran's arms exports to the murderous Assad regime in Syria are of particular concern. As the Panel of Experts has concluded, Syria is now the central party to illicit Iranian arms transfers.
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The youth thing never really, from my vantage point, slowed me down. I think the harder audience for me to gain acceptance from was the career diplomatic corps that worked with and for me in the Africa Bureau.
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