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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
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Susan Elizabeth Rice
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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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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'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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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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I'm not watching any TV shows, frankly.
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I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.
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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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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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The notion that -- which some people are trying to suggest, that by asking for the identity of an American person, that is the same as leaking it, is completely false. There's no equivalence between so-called unmasking and leaking.
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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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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say 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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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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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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Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
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Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.
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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
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One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
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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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