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I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I don't feel a need to apologize for doing or saying something that I think needs to be said, just because it may not sit comfortably with somebody else.

Susan Rice

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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
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United States Ambassador To The United Nations
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Susan Elizabeth Rice
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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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I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.
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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 have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
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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're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.
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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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Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
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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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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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Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.
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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
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Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention they are in fact inextricably linked.
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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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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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I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.
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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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