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

Condoleezza Rice

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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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" Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people. "

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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 a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that. "

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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 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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" If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time. "

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" You go to war when there is a security threat, and Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to our interests and our security. "

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" I think golf can be one of those places where we act and we hope that people act as we would like them to act all the time. "

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" People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights. "

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" When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk. "

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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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" The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom. "

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" The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it - really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn't have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it? "

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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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" 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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