Human beings are not perfect. Their institutions are not perfect, but they have to keep trying. And America has to help people keep trying.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEThis 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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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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Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
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Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
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We’re in a new world. We’re in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn’t act.
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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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I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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Every life is capable of greatness.
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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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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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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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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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I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I’m always finding something funny.
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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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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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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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