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 RICEMy mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.
More Condoleezza Rice Quotes
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When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.
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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 good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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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 firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
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Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
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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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You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.
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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’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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If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you’re going to get a good education, we’ve got a real problem.
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Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.
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Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.
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Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.
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