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" I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views. "
Condoleezza Rice
People
Enough
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" Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do. "
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" We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority. "
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Blind
" I have enormous respect for people who do run for office. "
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" 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
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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
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Information
" I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying. "
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Where
Stanford
Happy
" 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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Think
Taught
Understand
" What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday. "
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Tomorrow
Know
Today
" We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war. "
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War
Winning
Depends
" 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. "
Condoleezza Rice
Love
Student
Run
" I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?' "
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Know
Daughter
You
" I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body. "
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Achieving
Student
Race
" I'm not a politician. "
Condoleezza Rice
Politician
" 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. "
Condoleezza Rice
Want
Challenge
Doubt
" 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. "
Condoleezza Rice
Decade
War
Security
" When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience. "
Condoleezza Rice
You
Relationship
Music
" I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner. "
Condoleezza Rice
Actually
Academic
Learner
" 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. "
Condoleezza Rice
American
Think
Security
" 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. "
Condoleezza Rice
Freedom
War
Support
" 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. "
Condoleezza Rice
He
Caution
Want
" 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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Want
Society
Truth
" 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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Progress
Up
Stand Up
" 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
He
I Am
Education
" 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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Understand
Successful
You
" Football is like war. It's about taking territory. "
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Like
Football
War
" Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections. "
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Victories
Box
Policy
" 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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Best
Happy
People
" 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. "
Condoleezza Rice
People
Democracy
Government
" 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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Friend
Good
School
" 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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Need
Think
Questions