Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEIt’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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I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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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 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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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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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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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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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.
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Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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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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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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Education is of no value and talent is worthless – unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.
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So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we’re vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn’t fully understand.
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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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People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.
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This is the democratic process at work, What you’re seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
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