People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEYou 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.
More Condoleezza Rice Quotes
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Differences can be a strength.
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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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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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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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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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We need a common enemy to unite us.
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We’re not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don’t negotiate about terrorism. It’s is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn’t anything to negotiate.
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Out of struggle very often comes victory.
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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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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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There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That’s what I love doing.
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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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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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America’s still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.
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History’s long arc is different than the today’s headlines.
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Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.
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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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I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
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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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Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.
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Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
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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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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.
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Today’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.
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