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Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

Condoleezza Rice

The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.
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Better Business Quick Reduction
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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Open Ourselves Place Society Territory Threat Truth Vulnerable
It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling – and indeed healthy – to ask why you have been given so much.
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Dangerous Health Humble Yourself
I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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Country Effective Myself Power Principle Thinking
Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.
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Better Company Leadership Recognition Simplicity Yourself
The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
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Integrity Leadership Right
Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.
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Attention Hard Work History Judgement Rare Security Yourself
NATO is built on security, but it’s also built on values.
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Build Foundation Security Value
Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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Policy Problem Separate Unity
Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.
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Acceptance Greatness Leadership Word World
America’s still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.
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Important Leadership Place Powerful World
It’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails when you’re trying to make a plan work.
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Bad Failure Planning Policy Work Yourself
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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Children Election Family Mom Myself Parents Vote Win
You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.
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Compassionate Integrity Work Yourself
You know, I’ve never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I’d been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I’d be still waiting.
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Believe Black Female Model Modeling Myself Role Special Wait Yourself
We need a common enemy to unite us.
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Enemy Ourselves Unity

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

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