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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. "
Condoleezza Rice
Mom
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" 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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" 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'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner. "
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" 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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" 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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" Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance. "
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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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" 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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" We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" We need a common enemy to unite us. "
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" 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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" I think it goes back to whether or not race and class - that is, race and poverty - is not becoming even more of a constraint. Because with the failing public schools, I worry that the way that my grandparents got out of poverty, the way that my parents became educated, is just not going to be there for a whole bunch of kids. "
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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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Good
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" I have enormous respect for people who do run for office. "
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" I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor. "
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" We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. "
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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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" 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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" I know a lot of very stable gay couples. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists. "
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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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" I'm saying there is no way that I will do this, because it's really not me. I know my strengths, and governor Romney needs to find someone who wants to run with him. There are many people who will do it very, very well, and I'll support the ticket. "
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" Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing. "
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" The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. "
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