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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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Jazz
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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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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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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 don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.
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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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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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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 to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
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Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset
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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'm not watching any TV shows, frankly.
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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 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 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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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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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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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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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 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 am blunt when I want to be.
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