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Susan Rice
Age: 60
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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I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.
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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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South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
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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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The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
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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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I think one of the real issues that we're faced with is how we consume news, how the media is perceived, how fake news is gaining a degree of currency without criticism that is dangerous, in my judgement.
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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
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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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What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.
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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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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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I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.
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There are no cookie-cutter solutions that you can apply from one circumstance to another. They're different. Our interests, as implicated, are different. The tools we have at our disposal are different.
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I don't get drunk, I get a little happy on rare occasion, and I'm probably dancing if I'm that happy.
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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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People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.
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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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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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