History’s long arc is different than the today’s headlines.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEIf you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.
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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.
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Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.
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When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.
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You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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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.
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It’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails when you’re trying to make a plan work.
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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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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 first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
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If you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.
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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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I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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So 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.
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Human beings are not perfect. Their institutions are not perfect, but they have to keep trying. And America has to help people keep trying.
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Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.
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