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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEYou know, I’ve never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I’d been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I’d be still waiting.
More Condoleezza Rice Quotes
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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.
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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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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 think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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Out of struggle very often comes victory.
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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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Education is of no value and talent is worthless – unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.
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Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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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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The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.
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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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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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I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.
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People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I’m not that complicated. I’m pretty straightforward. And I’m not all that self-reflective, because I tend to be a doer.
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