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"41 Condoleezza Rice Quotes & Sayings

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Born: November 14, 1954 | Politician | Former United States Secretary of State |

Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

Education Force Arbitrary Culture
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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.

About Acquire Always Cloud
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We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
Depends Nation Our Security
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It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

After Been Decade Defiance
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But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

Acquire Caution Destruction He
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It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

About Community High High Time
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Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

Afghan Afghanistan Al Base
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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.

Act Could Make Married
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But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

Continue Matter Meet Open
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We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Back Clear Go Iraq
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We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror.

Against Common Continue Fight
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Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

Iraq Neighbors Our People
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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.

Desire East Freedom Help
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I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

Any Council Elected Fond
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I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

About American Anchor Been
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The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

Answer Balance Balance Of Power Defend
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After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

After America Because Economic
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The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

America Circumstances Come Essence
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My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Great Great Teachers Greatest Mediocre
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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.
Affect Cannot Did Know
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I don't see myself in any way in elective office.

Any Elective Myself Office
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If you love Russia, you have to love Godunov.

Love Russia To Love You
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Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

Attack Choose Co-Operation Cooperate
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I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'

Afforded Been Conservative Daughter East
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If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

Been Better Long-Term Music
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Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization - listed by Europeans as a terrorist organization.

Course Enemy Europeans Hamas
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Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.

Badly Because Fault Frankly
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When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

Bonding Collaborative Doing Experience
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When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

Corporate Going Government Ladder
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We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress.

Affirm American Free Free Markets
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What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you're going. Our job is to make certain the pathways are open to both our boys and our girls.

Always Both Boy Certain
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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.

Actually Always Child Could
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The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.
Come Day Position Powerful
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I could read music before I could read.

Before Could Music Read
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Football is like war. It's about taking territory.

About Football Like Taking
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When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.

Attracted Before Difficulties Hopeful
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Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

Box Cannot Chalk Defeats
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I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11.

American Bush Guilty I Think
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My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

Alabama Because Crow Democrats
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I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

Am Happy I Am Professor
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I have enormous respect for people who do run for office.

Enormous Office People Respect
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Condoleezza Rice Quotes & Sayings