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 RICEIt’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails when you’re trying to make a plan work.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEMy mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEThe people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity – and an obligation – to help them turn this desire into reality.
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 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 RICEI think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEHistory’s long arc is different than the today’s headlines.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEYou cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEEvery life is capable of greatness.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEThe first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEI think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
CONDOLEEZZA RICESo 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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEWe need a common enemy to unite us.
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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEWe need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEGreat leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.
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