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Human beings are not perfect. Their institutions are not perfect, but they have to keep trying. And America has to help people keep trying.

Condoleezza Rice

I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.
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Agreement Country Deal International Thinking World
Out of struggle very often comes victory.
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Hard Time Hard Work Inspirational Struggle Victory
We can’t rely – or no country can rely on just a single personality to carry it forward. And so what the American founding fathers understood was that institutions were built for human imperfection not human perfection.
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Build Country Father Human Imperfection Institution Personality Understand
We need a common enemy to unite us.
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Enemy Ourselves Unity
In the United States, we’ve always been held together by the belief that it doesn’t matter where you came from. It matters where you’re going.
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Belief Country Togetherness Yourself
There’s no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.
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Challenge Greatness Public Service
Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
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Hard Mindset Open Passion Search Yourself
The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
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Circumstance Country Essence Greatness Ideas Nation Religion Unity 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
Most days are not overwhelmingly successful in your life. And what really marks whether you’re going to be successful is how well you deal with the bad days, not how well you deal with the good ones.
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Bad Day Deal Goodness Life Success Yourself
Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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Policy Problem Separate Unity
Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.
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Difference Pespective Strength
You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you’ll do it well.
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Difference Obligation World Yourself
The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.
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Better Business Quick Reduction
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
We’re not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don’t negotiate about terrorism. It’s is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn’t anything to negotiate.
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Engagement Negotiation Terrorism War Wrong

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