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President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.

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Susan Rice
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
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United States Ambassador To The United Nations
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Susan Elizabeth Rice
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Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.
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I'm not watching any TV shows, frankly.
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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
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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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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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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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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've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.
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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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I do leisure reading but I don't get to do it like, at one in the morning. When I getting up at six in the morning, so I do most of my leisure reading on vacation and on airplanes and that sort of stuff.
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I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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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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I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.
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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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I have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
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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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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
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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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