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I am a direct person.
I am blunt when I want to be.
There is no pure free-market economy.
I'm not watching any TV shows, frankly.
We can't let others judge information for us.
Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.
History is a better guide than good intentions.
They (american press) always blame America first!
I was very happy in my job at the United Nations.
Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.
We have to know who we are and know what we believe.
Nobody's tried to touch my hair in like, in decades.
I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.
President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.
All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
I don't have time to think about the false controversy.
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.
I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.
I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.
Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.
I have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.
If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.
Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.
The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.
We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests
The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
The problem is, Hamas is using force to try to extort progress on its political objectives.
Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.
Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
We should learn to tolerate nuclear weapons of North Korea just like we did the Soviet Union.
Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.
My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.
I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.