American - Statesman | November 17, 1964 -
We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.
Susan Rice
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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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Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.
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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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South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
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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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The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.
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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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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 a direct person.
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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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I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
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