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I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.

Susan Rice

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Susan Rice
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
Politician
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United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
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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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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 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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President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.
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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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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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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 am blunt sometimes I am diplomatic sometimes I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.
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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 have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.
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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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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 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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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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There are no cookie-cutter solutions that you can apply from one circumstance to another. They're different. Our interests, as implicated, are different. The tools we have at our disposal are different.
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I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.
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Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.
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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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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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