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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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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
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United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
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Iran's arms exports to the murderous Assad regime in Syria are of particular concern. As the Panel of Experts has concluded, Syria is now the central party to illicit Iranian arms transfers.
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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
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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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Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.
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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.
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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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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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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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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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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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South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
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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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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 don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.
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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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Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.
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I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
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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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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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