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" I'm not a politician. "
Condoleezza Rice
Politician
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" There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. "
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" My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones. "
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" 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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" I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on display. I said that the tallest doll needed to be on the end, and my little friend said to me, 'Oh, you're just so bossy.' I remember thinking that wasn't a good thing. But I kept insisting the doll had to be on the end anyway. "
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School
" When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk. "
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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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