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.
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 RICEWe 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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEI laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I’m always finding something funny.
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 hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEIf you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.
CONDOLEEZZA RICESelf esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEThere 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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEWe’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.
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 RICEToday’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.
CONDOLEEZZA RICERace is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEGreat leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.
CONDOLEEZZA RICENATO is built on security, but it’s also built on values.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEYour passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEAs 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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