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I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.

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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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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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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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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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We have to know who we are and know what we believe.
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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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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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President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.
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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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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
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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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What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.
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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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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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The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.
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I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi 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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