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

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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
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United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
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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 am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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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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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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Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
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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 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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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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We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.
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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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I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I don't feel a need to apologize for doing or saying something that I think needs to be said, just because it may not sit comfortably with somebody else.
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President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.
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South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
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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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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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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 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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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.
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