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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. "

Condoleezza Rice

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" My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that. "

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" I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views. "

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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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" 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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" 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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