Susan Rice Quotes

#1. Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

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#2. Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria.

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#3. My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

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#4. We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.

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#5. Iran's arms exports to the murderous Assad regime in Syria are of particular concern. As the Panel of Experts has concluded, Syria is now the central party to illicit Iranian arms transfers.

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#6. In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

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#7. Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

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#8. Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better.

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#9. There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

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#10. I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

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#11. Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.

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#12. Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

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#13. One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

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#14. Our bottom line, if you want to call it a red line, president's bottom line has been that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon and we will take no option off the table to ensure that it does not acquire a nuclear weapon, including the military option.

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#15. Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

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#16. South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

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#17. I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

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#18. We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

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#19. Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

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#20. If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

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#21. As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

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#22. Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

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#23. Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

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#24. I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

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#25. I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

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#26. I am a direct person.

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#27. The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

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#28. The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

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#29. I don't have time to think about the false controversy,

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#30. The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.

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#31. We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

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#32. What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

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#33. The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

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#34. I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

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#35. I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

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#36. Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

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#37. I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

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#38. There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world.

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#39. Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

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