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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. "
Condoleezza Rice
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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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" The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position. "
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" What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday. "
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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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" I could read music before I could read. "
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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. "
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" Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea? "
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" I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections. "
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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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" Football is like war. It's about taking territory. "
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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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" We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means. "
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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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You
" There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal. "
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American
View
" 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. "
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Box
Policy
" Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do. "
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Rock
" 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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" We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. "
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" I don't see myself in any way in elective office. "
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" We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists. "
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" I know a lot of very stable gay couples. "
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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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" Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had. "
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" We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace. "
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" Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance. "
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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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" 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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" I'm not a politician. "
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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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" It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991. "
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