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" If you love Russia, you have to love Godunov. "
Condoleezza Rice
You
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" We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. "
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" I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics. "
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" You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not. "
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" I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11. "
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" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "
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Rarely
" I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they need to be answered. "
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Think
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" I know a lot of very stable gay couples. "
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Couples
Gay
" 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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Me
Parents
Vote
" 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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" I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views. "
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Enough
Respect
" 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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Freedom
War
Support
" I have enormous respect for people who do run for office. "
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People
Respect
Who
" 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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Happy
People
" 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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He
Caution
Want
" 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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Game
Golf
Great
" 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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Political
America
Look
" 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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Peaceful
People
Violence
" 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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Security
War
You
" Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives. "
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Street
Choose
Intelligence
" I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner. "
Condoleezza Rice
Actually
Academic
Learner
" 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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America
Religion
You
" I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies. "
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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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Enemy
More
Organization
" Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing. "
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Because
Order
" 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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Time
You
Hands
" 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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People
Freedom
Opportunity
" 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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Always
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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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Know
Problem
Information
" 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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Want
Challenge
Doubt
" So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand. "
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Understand