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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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President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.
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President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.
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President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.
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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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I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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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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Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.
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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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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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I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.
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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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We know that weapons, heavy weapons continue to flow across the border from Russia into Ukraine. And we have now, in recent days, indications that Russians - Russian military units themselves have, on occasion, fired into Ukraine.
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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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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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I don't worry about how folks want to characterize 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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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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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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The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
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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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