I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEYou 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.
More Condoleezza Rice Quotes
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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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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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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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NATO is built on security, but it’s also built on values.
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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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Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.
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Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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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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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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I think America is still a bright, shining city on the hill – not because we’re perfect but because we struggle in our imperfections every day.
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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.
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I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
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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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