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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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Susan Rice
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
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United States Ambassador To The United Nations
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Susan Elizabeth Rice
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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 United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
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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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President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.
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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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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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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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I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
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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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I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.
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If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.
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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.
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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'm not watching any TV shows, frankly.
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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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Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
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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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We know that weapons, heavy weapons continue to flow across the border from Russia into Ukraine. And we have now, in recent days, indications that Russians - Russian military units themselves have, on occasion, fired into Ukraine.
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President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.
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