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Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Condoleezza Rice

NATO is built on security, but it’s also built on values.
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Build Foundation Security Value
So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we’re vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn’t fully understand.
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Teaching Thinking Understand Vulnerable Way
People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I’m not that complicated. I’m pretty straightforward. And I’m not all that self-reflective, because I tend to be a doer.
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Action Complication Fact Myself People Reflection
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
Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
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Achievement Confidence Fake Praise Standard Worth
Today’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.
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Day Head Judgement Media News Present
Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it’s about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations.
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Future Generation Greatness Inspirational Leadership Motivational Opportunity Remarkable True
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
Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.
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Difference Pespective Strength
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
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity – and an obligation – to help them turn this desire into reality.
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Desire Obligation People Reality Share
I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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Born Classmate Move Myself Place White
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
Differences can be a strength.
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Difference One Liner Strength
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
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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