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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.

Condoleezza Rice

I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant country in the world.
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Believe Country Myself People Thinking Tolerance World
People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.
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Hurt People Realization Side Yourself
You have to have a strong sense of your values and a strong sense of who you are, because there are a lot of events and a lot of people who will pull you in this direction or that direction.
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Direction People Strong Value Yourself
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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Teaching Thinking Understand Vulnerable Way
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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Difference Obligation World Yourself
History’s long arc is different than the today’s headlines.
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Day Different History News
We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
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Beyond Expectation Leadership Need Woman
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
I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I’m always finding something funny.
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Funny Goodness Laughter Myself
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
Every life is capable of greatness.
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Capability Greatness Life One Liner
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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Achievement Benefit Children Enough Fortunate Hope Resource Time
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
Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.
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Acceptance Greatness Leadership Word World
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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Children Election Family Mom Myself Parents Vote Win
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

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