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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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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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President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.
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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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Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.
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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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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 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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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'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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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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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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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'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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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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Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.
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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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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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I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
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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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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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