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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.

Susan Rice

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Susan Rice
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
Politician
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United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
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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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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.
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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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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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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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We have to know who we are and know what we believe.
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I have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
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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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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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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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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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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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I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just treated me as they would anybody else. They had to deal with me as a representative of the United States of America, and the United States of America was too important to be dismissed or ignored on any grounds.
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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 are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.
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There are no cookie-cutter solutions that you can apply from one circumstance to another. They're different. Our interests, as implicated, are different. The tools we have at our disposal are different.
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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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I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.
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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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