My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.
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.
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NATO is built on security, but it’s also built on values.
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There’s no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.
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America’s still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.
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I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I’m always finding something funny.
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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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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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The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
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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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Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you’ll do it well.
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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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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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When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.
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You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.
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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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