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Condoleezza Rice

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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Policy Problem Separate Unity
Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.
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Call Defeat Greatness Human Moral Time
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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Balance Enjoyment Hard Work Important Life Myself Play Work
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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Bad Failure Planning Policy Work Yourself
What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.
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Affect Change Knowledge Past Present Yourself
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
I think America is still a bright, shining city on the hill – not because we’re perfect but because we struggle in our imperfections every day.
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Bright Country Imperfection Ourselves Perfection Shine Struggle Thinking
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
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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Belief Country Togetherness Yourself
Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
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Hard Mindset Open Passion Search Yourself
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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Help Human Institution People Perfection
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 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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Build Country Father Human Imperfection Institution Personality Understand
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
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
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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Direction People Strong Value Yourself

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