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President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.

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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
Washington
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Susan Elizabeth Rice
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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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I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.
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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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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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I am blunt when I want to be.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.
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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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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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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
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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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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 have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
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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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