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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
Democracy
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Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.
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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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I am blunt when I want to be.
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I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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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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It's in our interest to continue with the Paris Agreement and to deal with climate change as the real threat it actually is.
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South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
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We have to know who we are and know what we believe.
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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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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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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 have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.
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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 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 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 may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.
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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'm not watching any TV shows, frankly.
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