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" Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs. "

Condoleezza Rice

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" Football is like war. It's about taking territory. "

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

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" The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. "

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" After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. "

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" Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible. "

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" My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones. "

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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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" But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil. "

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" Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors. "

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" If it is not possible for me to go somewhere and to be willing to encounter people with different views, then I'm really not doing my job. "

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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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" 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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" One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us. "

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" What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you're going. Our job is to make certain the pathways are open to both our boys and our girls. "

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" It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. "

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