You 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.
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The 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.
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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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If you cannot allow people to do their jobs, nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
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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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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.
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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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Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.
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Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
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My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.
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Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.
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I 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.
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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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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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Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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