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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEYou cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
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The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.
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If you cannot allow people to do their jobs, nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
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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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Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
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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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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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Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
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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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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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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.
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People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.
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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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Today’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.
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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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