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I am blunt when I want to be.

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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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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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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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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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I am straight forward I am not manipulative I am not two-faced. And I think that that has served me well in all of my roles, particularly as a diplomat, because people knew if I said something, I meant it. If I said no, I meant no, and if I said we could make this work, we would make it work.
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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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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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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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I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.
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We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.
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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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If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.
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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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Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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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 have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.
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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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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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I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.
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President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.
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