The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEGreat leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.
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As secretary of state it’s been an enormous honor to represent this great country that I love so much – I have really seen that our great strengths are in the ability of people to reach their potential here.
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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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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.
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Every life is capable of greatness.
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You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.
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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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Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
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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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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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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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If you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.
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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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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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Differences can be a strength.
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I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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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’ve never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it’s important to have a balanced and well-rounded life.
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Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.
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Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.
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The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.
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You have to have a strong sense of your values and a strong sense of who you are, because there are a lot of events and a lot of people who will pull you in this direction or that direction.
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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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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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You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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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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