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I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with minimal help, that we are going to be able to bring down the levels of our forces. And I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.

Condoleezza Rice

Doubt, Get Better, Levels

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing On U.S Foreign Policy in Iraq, October 19, 2005.

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We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated; but overwhelmingly American forces there, putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis, helping to liberate them, that is appreciated by the Iraqi people and by the Prime Minister.

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People, Lines, Helping

"Transcript: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. June 05, 2006.

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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.

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Running, Government, People

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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.

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Strong, Years, Anchors

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I am proud of the decision of this Administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein. I am proud of the liberation of 25 million Iraqis. And I'm proud to see an Iraq that is now emerging with a stronger government, a truly multiethnic, multi-sectarian government that's about to have its second set of elections, that's inviting private investment into Iraq, and that is making peace with its Arab neighbors.

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Government, Iraq, Decision

Interview With Judy Woodruff of Bloomberg TV, July 1, 2008.

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I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an adult sport I took up tennis and played that quite seriously from the time I was about 18.

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Sports, Athlete, Tennis

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

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Principles, Sitting, Congress

"Rice Leads Counterattack". "60 minutes", www.cbsnews.com. March 28, 2004.

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What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

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Athlete, College, Order

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I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

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Believe, Political, Majority

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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

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Strong, Home, Usa

Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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What we will not wait for is that particular nexus of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction that is extremism, and the technology to come together in a way that is harmful to the United States.

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Technology, Mass Destruction, Waiting

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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

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Homeland Security, Needed, Department

"Qatar offers $100m to relief fund". www.cnn.com. September 4, 2005.

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I don't know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai, for his strength, for his wisdom and for his courage to lead this country first in the defeat of the Taliban and now in rebuilding a democratic and unified Afghanistan. And I can tell you I am with foreign ministers and with heads of state all over the world. I sit in the councils of NATO. I sit with the EU. I sit with people all over the world and there is great admiration for your president and also for what the Afghan people are doing here.

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Country, People, Community

Remarks With Afghan President Hamid Karzai After Their Meeting, 2001-2009.state.gov. June 28, 2006.

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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.

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Running, Office, President

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

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Country, Real, Thinking

Source: www.msnbc.com

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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.

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War, Years, Hussein

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A lot is being done to bring additional protective measures, particularly the critical infrastructure locations around the United States, ... There is a very active ... program of
coordination on this particular period of time with both public and private entities and at the federal, state and local levels.

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United States, Done, Levels

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To say that people around the world deserve the same, the same life that we have in the United States, the same freedoms that we have, that seems to me, humble. I think it's humble to say that the United States, which has been given so much, should give back.

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Humble, Thinking, People

Source: www.msnbc.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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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.

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Mass Destruction, Trying, United States

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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.

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Issues, Community, Hussein

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

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Country, President, Development

"Israeli-Palestinian Talks Could Be Delayed". Interview with Alison Stewart, Luke Burbank, www.npr.org. October 15, 2007.

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Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us, in the administration, that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to.

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War, Moving, Opportunity

"The Wolf Blitzer Reports Show", www.cnn.com. March 22, 2004.

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When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

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Evil People, Want, Excuse

"PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, July 28, 2005.

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I've never really been a workaholic.

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Workaholic

Source: 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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