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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

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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
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Almost
Within
Anything
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Jazz

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President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.
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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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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.
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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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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
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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 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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I think one of the real issues that we're faced with is how we consume news, how the media is perceived, how fake news is gaining a degree of currency without criticism that is dangerous, in my judgement.
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One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
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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 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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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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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 must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.
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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'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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We have to know who we are and know what we believe.
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