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When I said I had always hoped to marry in my race, I really do mean that. That doesn't mean I absolutely wouldn't marry outside of it, but there's a culture and traditions to maintain, and I have great pride in them, and I always thought it would be wonderful to share that with somebody of my race.

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Mean, Pride, Race

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

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Message and policy are very much a part, you know, two parts of the same coin.

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Two, Coins, Messages

The New York Times Interview, www.scoop.co.nz. August 23, 2005.

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The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

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Community, Nuclear, Weapons

Condoleezza Rice's remarks on Iran, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2006.

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Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

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Drinking, Thinking, People

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I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

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Passion, Trying, Talent

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First, I wanted to answer the question I'm most frequently asked: "How did you become who you are?" Well, you had to know John and Angelena Rice.

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Answers, Firsts, Wells

Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

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War, Winning, Winner

Opening Statement to the 9/11 Commission, delivered 8 April 2004, Washington, D.C.

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The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.

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Military, Class, America

"Campaign 2000: Promoting the National Interest" by Condoleezza Rice in Foreign Affairs, Volume 79, No. 1, www.foreignaffairs.com. January/February 2000.

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And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

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Iraq, People, Neighbor

"Condoleezza Rice interview for Al Jazeera TV". www.independent.co.uk. October 15, 2001.

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When you're in government, of course, you have protection and you have people who are looking out for your wellbeing, but you can't live in a state of fear. If you do, you're not going to do your job very well and you're going to give yourself high blood pressure, which probably isn't worth it.

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Jobs, Government, Blood

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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It was really wonderful playing with Aretha [ Franklin]. I knew that she knew what she was doing, so all I had to do was sit in the background and vamp a little bit.

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Littles, Wonderful, Franklin

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Well, I didn't feel that I could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they did to make it possible for me to be who I am, if I sort of just put it at the beginning of a book about my last eight years in foreign policy.

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Book, Eight, Who I Am

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

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My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

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Jobs, Rights, Trying

Source: www.foxnews.com

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To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

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Country, Mean, Circles

Source: www.msnbc.com

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America is a country that went through an extremely difficult set of circumstances out of 9/11. And we've survived it as a country, and I think we've survived it as one people. And we all ought to be concentrating on trying to make sure that we move forward as one people out of that terrible experience.

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Country, Moving, Thinking

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I think there's sometimes too much attention to a few people who do hold extreme views. Most Americans go about their lives living in communities that are increasingly multiethnic, increasingly multi-religious. And they are welcoming of people who are not like themselves. Now, I don't have rose-colored glasses about America, because I grew up in the segregated South. But I watch it every day. I think that Americans are very tolerant people.

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Thinking, People, Community

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Most middle-class Americans, even working-class Americans, encounter each other across racial lines all the time, but it gets really hard-core when you get into that witches' brew that is the combination of race and poverty.

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Poverty, Get Real

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I certainly have no regrets about overthrowing Saddam Hussein. I'd do it again. And, yes, there are a lot of things that I think we'd all do differently. Maybe we made some erroneous assumptions about the fabric of the society in Iraq and about the solidity of some of the institutions. And yes, there are a lot of things I would do differently. I'd probably work to rebuild Iraq from the outside in, rather than concentrating so much on Baghdad, for instance.

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Regret, Thinking, Assumption

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In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with the slings and arrows and humiliations of racism and segregation, somehow you had better control of the situation. I always said my parents understood that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but they and their parents believed that you could control your reaction to your circumstances.

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Racism, Parent, Segregation

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I remember at the time of 9/11 that there were women who went out of their way to escort Muslim women to grocery stores because they wanted to be sure that they didn't experience any prejudice. And so I'm not one who believes that America is a country that's intolerant. It's the most tolerant country in the world, and I really think that it's unfortunate that a number of people are trying to paint America with this brush. I just don't see it.

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Country, Believe, Thinking

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Hillary Clinton is somebody of great intelligence. She is somebody who really loves this country, who speaks forcefully and well for American interests and values.

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Country, Speak, Clinton

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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It's important to Russia to be able to attract capital and to attract technology to develop their oil fields, their oil and gas fields, many of which suffer from lack of access to the very best technologies. And it's also important, and this has been the US government's view to have diversification of supply, diversification of supply roots and, of course, diversification in terms of alternative energy.

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Technology, Russia, Government

Source: www.cnbc.com

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What surprised me was the angst at our democracy. And I understand it - I teach at a university and feel it in my students - but what I've tried to say to people is that we have amazing institutions, but nobody ever said we were perfect. We struggled before and we're struggling now, and we're going to struggle every day. We're a work in progress. That's why the American experience is so important for us to remember, and for us to be a beacon for others to enjoy those same rights.

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Struggle, Perfect, People

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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The moral case is, people say, "Oh they're not ready for democracy," but that's something someone who lives in a democracy would say about someone who doesn't live in a democracy. Well, if democracy is the highest form of human potential, then it can't be true for us and not for them. But, the practical case is democracies don't invade their neighbors. Democracies don't traffic in child soldiers. Democracies don't harbor terrorists as a state policy. So there's a reason to have more democratic states.

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Children, People, Soldier

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

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Kids, Past, Quality

Source: www.thedailybeast.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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