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

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.

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

[I'm] very fortunate and blessed person who still has a lot of living to do.

I may not agree with everything, but our President, just like President [George W.] Bush did, is trying to do his best under difficult circumstances.

I have enormous respect for people who do run for office.

We [USA] need to deal with our problems here at home if we're going to be strong enough to lead abroad.

You go to war when there is a security threat, and Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to our interests and our security.

I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.

You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

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.

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.

I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

[My favorite dish to cook] is fried chicken, and by the way I'm good at it, too. I make really good fried chicken.

I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.

I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

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

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

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.

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto.

Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

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

I don't see myself in any way in elective office.

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

I'm not personally fearful, but I look out, and there are a number of things that concern me, and I'm hopeful that we can overcome them.

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Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

It's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.

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.

Football is like war. It's about taking territory.

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

People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights.

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

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace.

There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver.

Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.

It is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

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

There is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

I could read music before I could read.

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

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.

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

As I was telling my husb - As I was telling President Bush.

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.

We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

Defeating Human Trafficking is a great moral calling of our time

You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.

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.

I have several [favorite clothes designers], but I like to wear Akris, Oscar De La Renta and Giorgio Armani.

Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.

Differences can be a strength.

We need a common enemy to unite us.

Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.

In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views.

[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

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.

U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

Every life is capable of greatness.

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

I've never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it's important to have a balanced and well-rounded life.

History's long arc is different than the today's headlines.

There are some places that have had real quarrels with the United States' policies, but I think the country is very well-respected worldwide.

My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

If you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.

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.

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

I think golf can be one of those places where we act and we hope that people act as we would like them to act all the time.

Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do.

Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost.

Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.

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

I know a lot of very stable gay couples.

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.

People are tired of being kept from the dignity that allows them to make their own choices.

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

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

I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.