It’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails when you’re trying to make a plan work.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEThe 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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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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I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I’m always finding something funny.
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Every life is capable of greatness.
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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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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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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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If you cannot allow people to do their jobs, nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
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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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Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
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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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Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
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When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.
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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 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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