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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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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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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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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 think it's very, very important that in foreign policy and national security decision making, as in any other realm, that there be a range of diversity that reflects the full complexity of America. We should draw on those experiences to inform our decision making.
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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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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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What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.
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I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.
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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 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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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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I have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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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 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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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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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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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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