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America cannot do most of what needs to be done alone. You need friends. And we have good friends around the world. We have friends with whom we share values in Europe and Asia - thanks to the forward march of democracy - in Latin America, in Africa, and increasingly in the Middle East.

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Latin, Good Friend, Europe

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The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.

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Oil, Reducing, Reliance

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Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

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Calling, Moral, Human Trafficking

"U.S. Contractors Cited in Human Trafficking Report". "Day to Day" with Michele Kelemen, www.npr.org. June 6, 2006.

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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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Country, People, Honor

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When you’re young, your world is pretty limited. My parents, my family, my church dominated my world. And because Birmingham was so segregated, I didn’t really have to encounter the slings and arrows of racism on a daily basis. Obviously, from time to time I did, like when my parents took me to see Santa Claus and he wasn’t letting black children sit on his knee. But my parents tried to insulate me as much as they could.

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Children, Racism, Parent

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I have constantly told people that I was Secretary of State and I was not going to get into a partisan debate. And I would vote my ballot in a secret way, as all Americans do. But I just want to acknowledge that after the election took place, it was a special time for Americans.

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People, Secret, Special

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The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo
ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.

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Political, United States, Doe

Condoleezza Rice's remarks at press briefing, August 6, 2006.

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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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Country, Personality, Single Person

"Society's Moral Fracturing Leads To Dangerous Places". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 16, 2017.

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Spirituality and faith are at the core of who I am. I was born to deeply religious parents who were able to give me that rock solid foundation in the church and in my faith which really has served me so well.

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Religious, Rocks, Who I Am

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It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of it. I know that for me it means asking for guidance, and that in the toughest times there's a personal savior that I can rely on. And I'm very grateful to my parents for giving me that.

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Grateful, Mean, Giving

"Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run for office, to express their views without fear and to pursue political causes. We would welcome the progress, prosperity and freedom of the Iranian people.

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Running, Believe, Rights

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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Your friends and your family, if you're close to them, they won't let you get too far from who you were or from who you are. And so I love staying close to people who've always known me. That's probably the best leavening that you could possibly have.

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People, Our Family, Staying

Source: www.glamour.com

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I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.

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Parent, Wonderful, Chalk

Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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I'm a terrible long-term planner.

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Long, Terrible, Term

Interview with Maria Bartiromo in Business Week, July 23, 2007.

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We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

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Stupid, War, Gun

Condoleezza Rice (2011). “No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington”, p.198, Broadway Books

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At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

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Believe, People, Information

"Rice heatedly defends her integrity on Iraq claims". Condoleezza Rice's remarks at a congressional hearing, www.reuters.com. February 13, 2008.

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Tocqueville talked about "ceaseless agitation," citizens constantly use their institutions, constantly challenging them, constantly insisting upon their rights. It's also individuals taking responsibility for other individuals, recognition that no democracy works if they're weaklings.

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Responsibility, Challenges, Democracy

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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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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Country, Believe, Thinking

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I think it's very humble to believe that there is no man, woman or child who should live in tyranny. That people who say, well, maybe Arabs just aren't ready for democracy or maybe Africans just are going to have corrupt governments, that seems to me arrogant.

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Children, Believe, Humble

Source: www.msnbc.com

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One of the signs that things are going reasonably well for democracy is that we have the states where they're closer to the people. Federalism is a strength. We have all of these civil society institutions - civil society is a very important hallmark of democracy.

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People, Democracy, Important

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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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.

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Want, Territory, Matter

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America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

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Powerful, America, Important

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I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility. Part of the problem is that this is an expensive game [golf]. I know in a couple of places where there are black members, and they come from pretty much the same socioeconomic level that the white members come from.

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Couple, Golf, Thinking

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Most of the people who were responsible for 9/11 are now in custody or have been killed. But there are others, and they plot and they plan, and they hope to pull it off again. And while we have to be right 100 percent of the time, they only have to be right once. So there's no way to overreact to that.

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People, Plot, Custody

Source: www.spiegel.de

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I really believe that you can. Not only do I think it is a part of public service to help young people find their way, just as professors had helped me find mine, but I've been very involved in K-12 education issues. I started a program back in 1992 called the Center for a New Generation, an afterschool enrichment program.

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Believe, Thinking, Issues

"Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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"I believed Afghanistan was always going to be hard. It's the fifth poorest country in the world. And when you fly over it, you realize that there's not much there. And, of course, it has the problem, too, of being on that border with Pakistan in basically an ungoverned region that has given the terrorists a staging ground. So it's a very difficult place. But I do believe that the mission there can succeed if success is defined as helping the Afghans to prevent the Taliban from being an existential threat to the Afghan government."

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