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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.

Susan Rice

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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
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United States Ambassador To The United Nations
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Susan Elizabeth Rice
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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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The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.
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What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.
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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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I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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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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South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
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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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Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.
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There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.
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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
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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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President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.
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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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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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Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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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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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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