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I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
Politician
Screenwriter
United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
Aware
Female
Black

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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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We have to know who we are and know what we believe.
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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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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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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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I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.
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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 to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
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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 am blunt when I want to be.
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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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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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I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.
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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.
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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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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've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.
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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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