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.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEYour passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.
More Condoleezza Rice Quotes
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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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History’s long arc is different than the today’s headlines.
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Differences can be a strength.
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You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.
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Every life is capable of greatness.
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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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People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.
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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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You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
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When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.
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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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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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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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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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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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