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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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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
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Susan Elizabeth Rice
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People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.
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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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The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.
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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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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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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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President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.
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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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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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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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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
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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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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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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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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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Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention they are in fact inextricably linked.
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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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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
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