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United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Susan Rice is an American diplomat and academic who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama. She is recognized for her influence on U.S. foreign policy and her dedication to human rights advocacy.

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“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. That sparked violence in various parts of the world, including violence directed against Western facilities including our embassies and consulates.”

“Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.”

“I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.”

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

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

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

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“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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“I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.”

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

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

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“For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.”

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

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

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“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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“We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US 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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“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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“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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“When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest Assistant Secretary of State but I was also a breastfeeding mother. I'm the first to admit that this felt crazy at times, and the balancing act is never ever easy. But my two kids are the most wonderful things that have ever happened to me.”

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“I have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.”

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“We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.”

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“It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.”

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“You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.”

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“You have to make change.”

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“Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.”

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“Nobody's tried to touch my hair in like, in decades.”

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“Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.”

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“Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.”

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“I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.”

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“I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I don't feel a need to apologize for doing or saying something that I think needs to be said, just because it may not sit comfortably with somebody else.”

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“I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.”

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“I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do.”

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“I like to think that with me, what you see is what you get, and you can like or dislike it, it's up to you, but it's straight. That's something that I pride myself on.”

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“We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.”

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“We have to know who we are and know what we believe.”

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“I think one of the real issues that we're faced with is how we consume news, how the media is perceived, how fake news is gaining a degree of currency without criticism that is dangerous, in my judgement.”

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“All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.”

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“We can't let others judge information for us.”

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“It's not the day in which I grew up, long time ago, where we had three news networks. No cable, no social media, no internet. Where what you see is what you got. We had basically straight journalism. We don't have that anymore.”

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“We have some straight journalism, but then we have opinion and perspective. And I think a lot of people, especially young people, don't know how to tell the difference, and aren't motivated to tell the difference.”

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“People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.”

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“Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.”

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“What we have done is when the threat has been directed at the United States, i.e., the terrorist threat from ISIL or Al-Qaeda in Syria, is to go after them.”

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“I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.”

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“I do leisure reading but I don't get to do it like, at one in the morning. When I getting up at six in the morning, so I do most of my leisure reading on vacation and on airplanes and that sort of stuff.”

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Born: November 17, 1964
Known for: United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Quotes: 103

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