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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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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 have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
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I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.
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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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I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.
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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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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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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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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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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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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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President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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