If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
Condoleezza RiceThe best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.
Condoleezza RiceEducation is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.
Condoleezza RiceI 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.
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