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.
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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEThis is the democratic process at work, What you’re seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEWhen somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEWe’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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEI 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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEMy 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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEIn 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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEI firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEThe 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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEYou 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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEBut the truth of the matter is, we’re an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That’s why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEDifferences can be a strength.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEYou can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.
CONDOLEEZZA RICENATO is built on security, but it’s also built on values.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEPeople may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEToday’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.
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