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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
Politician
Screenwriter
United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
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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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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 a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.
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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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Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.
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I have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
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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 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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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 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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I am blunt sometimes I am diplomatic sometimes I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.
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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 am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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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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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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One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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