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" I am very fond of Jeb Bush. He's a friend; he was a terrific governor of Florida. I worked with him on some immigration and education issues. "

Condoleezza Rice

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

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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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" We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability. "

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" We need a common enemy to unite us. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing with, people want each other to do well. "

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

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" There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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