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You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.

Condoleezza Rice

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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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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I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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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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My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.
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I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant country in the world.
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My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I’m an only child, and I could count on my mother’s vote.
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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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The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity – and an obligation – to help them turn this desire into reality.
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Differences can be a strength.
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Prejudice and bigotry are brought down…by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.
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We’re in a new world. We’re in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn’t act.
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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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When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran’s nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.
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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 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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