You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEWe’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.
More Condoleezza Rice Quotes
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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 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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We need a common enemy to unite us.
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I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
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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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We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
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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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Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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Out of struggle very often comes victory.
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Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.
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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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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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Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
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Human beings are not perfect. Their institutions are not perfect, but they have to keep trying. And America has to help people keep trying.
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There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That’s what I love doing.
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