America’s still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEToday’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.
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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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The 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.
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Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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There’s no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.
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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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The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.
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Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
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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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Every life is capable of greatness.
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In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.
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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 need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
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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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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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