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

Susan Rice

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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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We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
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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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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
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What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.
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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 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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I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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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 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 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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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 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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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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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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Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention they are in fact inextricably linked.
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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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We have to know who we are and know what we believe.
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There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.
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