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" People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights. "
Condoleezza Rice
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" It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I have enormous respect for people who do run for office. "
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Who
" I could read music before I could read. "
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" I'm not a politician. "
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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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Up
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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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Box
Policy
" People are tired of being kept from the dignity that allows them to make their own choices. "
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Choices
Tired
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
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" One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us. "
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Education
Opportunity
Politics
" 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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Strong
Leadership
World
" 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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More
Organization
" 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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Think
Time
Places
" 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. "
Condoleezza Rice
Game
Golf
Great
" 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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Chance
Best
" We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. "
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Go
Clear
Back
" People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorblind or gender-blind in this country, so I'm not suggesting that it isn't a factor. But I think in the final analysis, people will take a look at the positions, and they'll take a look at the issues. "
Condoleezza Rice
Think
People
Look
" I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon. "
Condoleezza Rice
White
Never Forget
World
" If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time. "
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Time
Step
Better
" I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views. "
Condoleezza Rice
People
Enough
Respect
" 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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Gun
Cloud
Smoking
" 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
" What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us. "
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Way
Tyranny
People
" 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
" I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that. "
Condoleezza Rice
International
Better
Chance
" 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
" 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
" I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying. "
Condoleezza Rice
Where
Stanford
Happy