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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
Politician
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United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
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I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.
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I am blunt when I want to be.
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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 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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President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.
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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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What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.
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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.
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It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.
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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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I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
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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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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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Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.
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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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I'm not watching any TV shows, frankly.
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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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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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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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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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