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America’s still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

Condoleezza Rice

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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Education Hard Work Yourself
NATO is built on security, but it’s also built on values.
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Build Foundation Security Value
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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Average Greatness Myself Poor Respect Teacher
Today’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.
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Day Head Judgement Media News Present
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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Help Human Institution People Perfection
Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.
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Better Company Leadership Recognition Simplicity Yourself
We’re not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don’t negotiate about terrorism. It’s is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn’t anything to negotiate.
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Engagement Negotiation Terrorism War Wrong
The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.
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Better Business Quick Reduction
Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.
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Difference Pespective Strength
There 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.
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Better Brilliant Class Love Myself Open World
It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling – and indeed healthy – to ask why you have been given so much.
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Dangerous Health Humble Yourself
Differences can be a strength.
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Difference One Liner Strength
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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Myself Problem Quick Smoking Uncertain Weapon
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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Build Country Father Human Imperfection Institution Personality Understand
You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.
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Compassionate Integrity Work Yourself
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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Desire Obligation People Reality Share

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