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" Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections. "

Condoleezza Rice

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" When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism. "

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" There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime. "

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" Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization - listed by Europeans as a terrorist organization. "

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" So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand. "

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" I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body. "

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" I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism. "

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" Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein. "

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" I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics. "

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" I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner. "

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" I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America. "

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" The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality. "

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" But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. "

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" I know a lot of very stable gay couples. "

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" We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress. "

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" I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying. "

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" We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. "

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" When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience. "

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" I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough. "

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" Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do. "

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" I could read music before I could read. "

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" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "

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" I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics. "

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" My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. "

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" We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the face of the earth. That we would not use that moment to press for women's rights seems to me unthinkable. "

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" I have enormous respect for people who do run for office. "

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" My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him. "

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" When I talk to students - and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on leave - they say, 'Well, how do I get to do what you do?'... And I say, 'Well, you have to start out by being a failed piano major.' And my point to them is don't try to have a 10-year plan. Find the next thing that interests you and follow that. "

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" Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives. "

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" There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see. "

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