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Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.

Condoleezza Rice

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
Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
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Influence Power Yourself
Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.
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Democracy Difference People Power Reality Share Violence Way
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
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
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
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
Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.
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Difference Pespective Strength
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
I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.
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Achievement Benefit Children Enough Fortunate Hope Resource Time
Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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Business Employee Goodness Leadership Manager Organization
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
This is the democratic process at work, What you’re seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
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Democracy Embrace People Style Work
History’s long arc is different than the today’s headlines.
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Day Different History News
NATO is built on security, but it’s also built on values.
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Build Foundation Security Value
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

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