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.
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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Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.
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Every life is capable of greatness.
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We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
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The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
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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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As secretary of state it’s been an enormous honor to represent this great country that I love so much – I have really seen that our great strengths are in the ability of people to reach their potential here.
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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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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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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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We need a common enemy to unite us.
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Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
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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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Today’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.
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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.
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When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.
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