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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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Susan Rice
Age: 59
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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Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.
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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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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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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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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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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 been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
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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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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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I am blunt when I want to be.
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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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One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
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President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.
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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 larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.
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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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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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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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What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.
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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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