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It’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails when you’re trying to make a plan work.

Condoleezza Rice

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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Myself Problem Quick Smoking Uncertain Weapon
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
In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.
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Education Hard Work Yourself
Every life is capable of greatness.
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Capability Greatness Life One Liner
If you cannot allow people to do their jobs, nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
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Creativity Job People Work 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
We’re in a new world. We’re in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn’t act.
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Act Marriage Possible Sorry Technology Terrorism 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
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
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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Average Greatness Myself Poor Respect Teacher
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
Prejudice and bigotry are brought down…by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.
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Definition Determination Force Possible Prejudice Success
If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you’re going to get a good education, we’ve got a real problem.
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Education Goodness Problem Reality Yourself
There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That’s what I love doing.
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Better Brilliant Class Love Myself Open World
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
Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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Policy Problem Separate Unity

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