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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State C Street Lobby Washington, DC January 19, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. (Cheers.) Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. I accept the nomination. (Laughter.) Thank you very much. That was – that silenced it pretty fast. (Laughter.) I am leaving here, obviously, with sadness. It’s bittersweet because you leave. But I actually am excited about the next chapter. And I have a feeling we’re all going to continue to cross paths, co...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Institute of Peace Washington, DC January 10, 2017 MS WOODRUFF: Thank you, Nancy. I’m delighted to be here and, Mr. Secretary, I understand you sprinted across the street. Is that right? SECRETARY KERRY: My sprinting days are reduced, but I came. I got here. (Laughter.) MS WOODRUFF: Well, there – you were spied hurrying, I’ll put it that way. SECRETARY KERRY: “Spied,” right. (Laughter.) MS WOODRUFF: So the format is that I’m ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC January 10, 2017 UNDER SECRETARY KENNEDY: Secretary Baker was not able to be with us here this evening, but it’s now my honor to read a letter from the 61st Secretary of State: “Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. I regret that I am unable to join Secretary Kerry and my former secretary colleagues, all of whom have been crucial to the creation of the U.S. Diplomacy Center Pavilion. The completion of the Diplomacy Center...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Cabinet Exit Memo Washington, DC January 5, 2017     Introduction When President Obama took office in 2009, the United States was engaged in two costly wars, faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and had a diminished standing with many of our allies and partners around the world. The starting point for this Presidency was one of the toughest I have ever seen in my decades of public service. Over the past eight years, President Ob...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 5, 2017 SECRETARY KERRY: Hi, everybody. Matt, welcome back. QUESTION: Happy New Year. Thank you. SECRETARY KERRY: Congratulations, Matt. QUESTION: Thank you. Thank you very much. SECRETARY KERRY: A little Vaille. QUESTION: Yeah. SECRETARY KERRY: No sleep. QUESTION: Happy New Year, Mr. Secretary. QUESTION: What’s that? SECRETARY KERRY: What? QUESTION: Happy New Year, sir. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy New Year to everybody. Thank you all. Great ...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Brussels, Belgium December 6, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon, everybody. I am pleased to be back in Brussels – obviously, a little bit bittersweet – to be here with my NATO colleagues for the last ministerial as Secretary of State, but I’m happy to be with my colleagues and pleased to be back in Brussels. There’s nothing nostalgic about our need to constantly reaffirm the importance of collective defense and democratic ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Berlin, Germany December 5, 2016 MODERATOR: So my job is to introduce a man who needs no introduction. As I said in there, literally, the most consequential Secretary of State in my lifetime, which is longer than I think I would like to admit. (Laughter.) And when you just think about what this man has been able to accomplish, the impossible to the impossible to the impossible – whether it’s getting China to agree to carbon emission limits or putting tog...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State The Ritz Carlton Washington, DC November 29, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very, very much, Karen. “Under the weather” is a polite word for the crud. (Laughter.) Anyway, thank you, Karen, for a wonderful introduction. And it’s with great pride that I accept the nomination. (Laughter.) Shh. It’s a little dangerous right now. (Laughter.) I am suffering from a bunch of grandchildren, all of whom are sniveling at...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Loy Henderson Auditorium Washington, DC November 2, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning. AUDIENCE: Good morning. SECRETARY KERRY: How are you doing? Everybody good? AUDIENCE: Yeah. Good. SECRETARY KERRY: Good. The loudest “yeah” was over here. Where are you from? QUESTION: Sri Lanka. SECRETARY KERRY: Sri Lanka. Well, you have reason to be loud. That’s good. I appreciate – Sri Lanka’s done some amazing things in the last years. So Evan, t...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Hilton Chicago Hotel Chicago, Illinois October 26, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good evening, everybody. And thank you, very, very much to Ivo Daalder. Thank you, sir, Mr. Ambassador. And thanks to the Chicago Council for Global Affairs for inviting me here. And a profound thank you to Ambassador Lou Susman for his very generous introduction. And most importantly, Marge and Lou, thank you for many, many years of extraordinary friendship. I really value it. And I thin...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Chicago, Illinois October 26, 2016 MODERATOR: It is an honor to welcome a Secretary of State to the University of Chicago. It is part of the mission of the Institute of Politics to facilitate these kinds of opportunities for you to interact with practitioners and leaders, and so we’re really pleased on that account. But I – our other mission is somewhat larger than that, which is: We live in a somewhat dispirited time in our politics. I don’t know ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Palo Alto, California October 10, 2016 MS BOYD: So, Mr. Secretary, welcome to Silicon Valley and thank you for joining us today. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy to be here. Thank you. MS BOYD: I’m going to dive right in because we have a little bit less time than we planned. And I wanted to start with the big news from Friday. And since so much news broke on Friday, I should probably be a little more specific. (Laughter.) So on Friday, the Obama Administration official...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Cartagena, Colombia September 26, 2016 MR KIRBY: (In progress) – time, so I’m not going to eat it up with too much on the intro side. The Secretary is going to open it up here with a few comments about the importance of our time here in Cartagena and the signing of this peace accord, and then we’ll open it up for questions. We’ve got about 15 minutes, 20 for this. We’ve got about 15 minutes total, okay? QUESTION: Great. MR KIRBY: But I ...

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Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC August 1, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon, everybody. Buenas tardes . I am delighted to be joined by my friend and my colleague Foreign Minister Maria Holguin of the Republic of Colombia. And we have been delighted over the course of the last day and a half or so to be engaged in the sixth session of the U.S.-Colombia High-Level Partnership Dialogue. It is underway here at the department, and I think Maria Angela woul...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC July 14, 2016 (As Delivered) SECRETARY KERRY: Hello and welcome, everybody. I’m very sorry that I couldn’t be with you in person today, but I’m super pleased to have a chance nonetheless to just share a few thoughts with you. I know that when you read the headlines or browse through posts on Facebook or Twitter and reflect on the many different threats that we’re facing in the world today, it can be difficult to imagine that ou...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Shangri La Hotel Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia June 5, 2016 AMBASSADOR GALT: (In progress) This is also different from our past meetings because we don’t have any tea or cookies. (Laughter.) But today you have the opportunity to meet with United States Secretary of State John Kerry, so I trust that makes up for the missing cookies. (Laughter.) It’s a great privilege to introduce Secretary Kerry to you, but before I do that, I thought I would quickly introduce yo...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Oxford, United Kingdom May 11, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: (Applause.) Wow. I think I’m just going to stop right now. (Laughter.) Thank you for just an incredibly warm, tremendous welcome to this historic hall. It’s a great honor for me to be here. Bob, where’d you run off to? Where did he go? Thank you so much for your welcome. And Warden MacMillan, thank you very much. I appreciate it. (Inaudible) Baroness Cathy Ashton, my good friend, thank you so muc...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX April 27, 2016 MR BARNES: Thank you very much, President Fenves. It’s my pleasure this evening to introduce our Secretary of State, my friend Secretary John Kerry. As he prepares to speak tonight, I’m reminded of the many years of dedication and service that he has brought to our country. Before graduating from Yale University, Secretary Kerry voluntarily enlisted in the United Stat...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Rice University Houston, Texas April 26, 2016 MR LEEBRON: Good evening, and welcome to this wonderful venue at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. We are thrilled to be hosting such a remarkable event tonight and thankful to Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy for making it possible. We are very grateful to Secretary Kerry for choosing the Baker Institute for his address this evening, and we welcome him warmly to Rice University. ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC March 31, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Could I ask everybody – ladies, gentlemen – shhh. I know the foreign ministers are unruly, but the energy ministers really, I mean – (laughter). Ladies and gentlemen, excellencies, colleagues, honored guests, a very warm good evening to all of you here. We’re really delighted to have you over here at the State Department. We gather tonight in a suite of rooms – here in the Jefferson Room, i...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State CBS Studio Washington, DC March 26, 2016 MR DICKERSON: We sat down earlier with Secretary of State John Kerry, who is just back from Brussels. We asked him how worried he was about another terror attack in Europe. SECRETARY KERRY: Well, I think everybody’s concerned, because for several years now foreign fighters have been returning from Syria or from other locations and implanting themselves in the communities, and this is the threat that we’ve all be...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Hotel Nacional Havana, Cuba March 22, 2016 QUESTION: Good morning. SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning. QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, these attacks in Brussels are sending shockwaves across the world. What can you tell Americans this morning? Are we safe? SECRETARY KERRY: Well, we’re constantly vigilant. We work as hard as humanly possible to make everybody safe. Regrettably, if one person decides they want to kill themselves and they want to blow themselves up around ...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC February 17, 2016 AMBASSADOR CHACON: I’m Arnold Chacon, director general of the Foreign Service and director of Human Resources at the Department of State. In this edition of Conversations on Leadership, it’s a real privilege and honor to host Secretary John Kerry in conversation with one of our emerging leaders in the department, Ms. Michelle Los Banos, a midlevel Foreign Service officer and former Pickering Fellow who works in my offic...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Davos, Switzerland January 22, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Klaus, thank you very, very much. Hello, everybody. Good morning to you. Klaus, first of all, thank you for your very warm, generous introduction. I especially want to thank you for your superb leadership of the World Economic Forum for many years. As you’ve said, it’s been my honor to come here. This may have been the hardest trip of all. I was looking up at the mountain, fresh snow, and I saw those b...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Davos, Switzerland January 21, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, listen, everybody. Greetings and thank you for your patience while we’re here, obviously. There’s a lot of bilateral diplomacy, trilateral even, that’s going on. I met this morning with Prime Minister Sharif and President Ghani and the Vice President. I also met one-on-one and otherwise with Prime Minister Netanyahu. And last night we met with President – the Vice President and I me...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 18, 2016 QUESTION: And joining us now, the Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for joining us here in our Situation Room. I know you’ve spent a lot of time in another Situation Room in town as well. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy to be here. QUESTION: You have said the prisoner release, in your word, was accelerated by the nuclear talks, the nuclear deal. Were these prisoners pawns, part of that deal? SECRETARY KERRY...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State National Defense University Washington, DC January 13, 2016 Thank you. Good morning. Thank you. Thank you very much, Major General Padilla. Thank you, all of you. It’s a great privilege for me to be able to be here today. I’m delighted to be in the presence of so many people currently serving our nation, all with great distinction. And it’s a privilege to be at NDU. I’m also honored that the Secretary of the Air Force Debbie James is here. Th...

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Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State The Boston Globe December 29, 2015 [ Spanish  | Arabic  | French ] One reason for the remarkable record of the New England Patriots is the team’s single-minded focus on the next game. Managing world affairs requires the same concentration on future challenges, for past accomplishments provide no guarantee of continued success. They can, however, lend confidence that, with the right preparation and effort, positive results will follow. As one year gives...

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Op-Ed John Kerry Secretary of State The Boston Globe December 29, 2015 Artículo de opinión - Fin de Año – para el Boston Globe Por el Secretario de Estado, John Kerry En la medida que un año da paso al siguiente, los líderes internacionales tienen la oportunidad de sentar base sobre los variados e importantes logros alcanzados en 2015. De ellos, ninguno es más importante que el reciente acuerdo global en París para evitar los efectos más noci...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC November 12, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Nancy, thank you very, very much. I apologize for being a couple minutes late over here. And I’m delighted to see a lot of friends and pleased that all of you could come here, share some thoughts this afternoon. It’s great for me to be here, and I want to thank the United States Institute of Peace for hosting all of us here this afternoon. I have to tell you I’m used to flying long distances to deli...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Park Hyatt Washington Washington, DC October 20, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, I have to get back at some people now big time. (Laughter.) First of all, David and Foreign Policy , thank you so – I am so grateful for this and frankly overwhelmed by it. I don’t think I’ve ever sat somewhere and have somebody talk except maybe at the Democratic Convention, and we know that’s all politics, right? (Laughter.) But I’m really touched by it. Let ...

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Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Bloomington, Indiana October 15, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY:   Thank you very much.  I accept the nomination.  (Laughter.)  You have twice welcomed me by standing up, and I am deeply appreciative.  I will caution you all to remind you that Winston Churchill once said that the only reason people give a standing ovation is they desperately need an excuse to shift their underwear.  (Laughter.)  I know you had a much more noble concept in mi...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Palace Hotel New York City October 2, 2015 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, thank you very much for sitting down with the BBC. SECRETARY KERRY: Very happy to sit with you, thank you. QUESTION: And based on the latest updates you have on Russia’s military operation in Syria and the reports that now they have targeted ISIS, they – next to confirmation or not – unconfirmed reports that Iran is boosting its presence in Syria, do you – is it your anal...

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Photos from the Trip» Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Vienna, Austria, to participate in the EU-coordinated P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran. austria Remarks 07/14/15   Interview With Terry Moran of ABC ;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Vienna, Austria 07/14/15   Interview With Rich Edson of Fox ;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Vienna, Austria 07/14/15   Interview With Andrea Mitchell of NBC ;  Secretary of State John Kerry; Vienna, Austri...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Geneva, Switzerland November 10, 2013 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, welcome back to Meet the Press. SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you. Good to be with you, David. QUESTION: The bottom-line goal here is to prevent Iran from producing or acquiring a nuclear bomb. You have said that in the interim, you want a complete halt on their weapons program. Clearly, there’s not a deal yet; they are not in a position to give in to that demand. Is that a fair statement? SECRETARY K...

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Townhall Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Newseum Washington, DC January 29, 2013 Video is available with closed captioning on YouTube . MS. SALES: Hello. I’m Leigh Sales from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Welcome to this town hall-style event with the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has her last day at the State Department this Friday. This is a town hall with a difference though because we have people all around the world ready to ask to questions from Britain to...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Georgetown University's Gaston Hall Washington, DC December 14, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. It is wonderful being back here at Georgetown in this magnificent Gaston Hall, and to give you something to do during exam week. (Laughter.) It’s one of those quasi-legitimate reasons for taking a break – (laughter) – which I’m very happy to have provided. I want to thank Jas for his introductory remarks, and clearly, those of you wh...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Phya Thai Palace Bangkok, , Thailand July 22, 2009 View Video at The Nation MODERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Secretary of State Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Applause.) SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you. MODERATOR: And the host of today’s event is Nation’s group editor Mr. Suttichai Yoon and Nation’s channel editor, Ms. Veenarat Laohapakakul. QUESTION: Good morning, everyone. Of course, everyone has been waiting f...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC July 7, 2009 QUESTION: How does it feel to be a former First Lady and now a Secretary of State? SECRETARY CLINTON: It feels very good, thank you. And I want to welcome you to the State Department. I also want to, in this format, wish Venezuela a happy independence day. I learned that your independence day is just one day after our independence day. QUESTION: Right. SECRETARY CLINTON: So we have a lot to celebrate: 198 years of independen...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC June 29, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Hello, how are you all? I actually missed you. (Laughter.) I know, I know, and I wanted to thank you for the flowers. I really appreciated those. They are immeasurably adding to the healing process. But I wanted to come down because, obviously, there’s a lot going on, and there are a number of important issues to address today. But I want to start with yesterday’s unfortunate events in Honduras,...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Cairo, Egypt June 4, 2009 MS. MACCALLUM: A nd after much anticipation, President Obama made his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, Egypt, today. He wasn’t the only one in the Middle East. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went along for the trip, and our own Greta Van Susteren was there as well. Secretary Clinton went “On the Record” with Greta in Cairo. QUESTION: Madame Secretary, nice to see you. SECRETARY CLINTON: Very good to s...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, DC May 1, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Director General Harry Thomas. I appreciate your leadership and words today. And it’s always a pleasure to be with so many members of the State Department family. We’re joined by career ambassadors, retired officers returning to State after decades of distinguished service, young diplomats and civil servants just beginnin...

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Interview With Mike Schneider of Bloomberg TV Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC January 13, 2009 QUESTION: Madame Secretary, we appreciate this opportunity. SECRETARY RICE: A pleasure to be with you, Mike. QUESTION: What is it like, as you sit here in this magnificent room, in the center of American diplomatic power, to know that in a few days, this is all part of your past? SECRETARY RICE: Well, I’m very excited about moving on, quite frankly. It’s been a great eight years. It&rsquo...

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Interview With Sylvie Lanteaume, Lachlan Carmichael, and Jordi Zamora Barceló of Agence France-Presse Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 22, 2008 QUESTION: Thank you. I guess we’ll start by looking forward a little bit, and I know you welcomed the election of Barack Obama – SECRETARY RICE: Yes. QUESTION: – and for what it meant for the United States, and also how the outside world looked at Obama. But why do you think there is such overwhelming support around the...

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Remarks From Daughters and Sons Meeting at the Council on Foreign Relations Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 17, 2008 MS. MITCHELL: Welcome. This is so wonderful for me to see all of you, many of you friends, many of you sons and daughters of friends. I am Andrea Mitchell from NBC News, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, and you all know our very special guest, the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. Welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations. And tonight is a very special evening...

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Roundtable With Associated Press Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 15, 2008 SECRETARY RICE: Well, I thought that we’d spend a few moments discussing the work that we’re going to do in New York. I’ll leave in a few minutes to go to New York. Today, we will have a meeting that the British are sponsoring on Zimbabwe. And the purpose of that meeting is to review the situation in Zimbabwe, but I think the position of the United States is well known on this, that we’ve...

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Print Roundtable Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC July 9, 2007 (11:00 a.m. EST) QUESTION: Maribel Hastings with La Opinion . Nice to meet you. Madame Secretary, my question is on immigration. It's an important issue for the Americas as well and I was wondering is the Administration -- or does the Administration have any plans to (inaudible) this issue after the bill's demise in the Senate? SECRETARY RICE: Well, obviously, it was a disappointment to see what happened to the immigration bill, bec...

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Interview With the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York, New York June 8, 2007 QUESTION: So this is on the record and -- please, do you want to start? SECRETARY RICE: I do. QUESTION: All right. I wonder if you'd talk a little bit about Iran and particularly what the strategy of the Administration is regarding both the nuclear program and the internal dynamics inside Iran. Because at least from our vantage point, it does seem that you're sending mixed signals, seeking a...

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Remarks at the Centennial Dinner for the Economic Club of New York Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York, New York June 7, 2007 (7:20 p.m. EST) SECRETARY RICE: Thank you very much. Thank you. (Applause.) Well, thank you, Barbara, for that kind introduction and I'd like to thank you very much for putting me on the dais of such an august group. There are a few economists here who must be wondering what they're doing sitting with a political scientist. That's a sort of joke from inside the academy. (Laughter...

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Remarks En Route Panama City, Panama Secretary Condoleezza Rice En Route Panama City, Panama June 4, 2007 SECRETARY RICE: I'm looking forward to this General Assembly meeting of the Organization of the American States. I think it's extremely important that this is an organization which I frankly think has done more and more good work. It's been particularly lively the last couple of years. I think that Jose Miguel Insulza has given good leadership to the organization. It's been active in Haiti. The Inte...

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Briefing En Route Madrid, Spain Secretary Condoleezza Rice En Route Madrid, Spain June 1, 2007 SECRETARY RICE: Good morning. Okay, Helene's still in the middle of her breakfast. (Laughter.) So is Glenn. Yeah, the Times and the Post are competing, as usual. So I'll just take your questions. QUESTION: Did you see anything positive coming out of the Solana-Larijani meetings yesterday? There seemed to be some somewhat conflicting accounts of their own afterward as to whether they made any progress. SECRETAR...

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Press Availability With Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos Secretary Condoleezza Rice Madrid, Spain June 1, 2007 FOREIGN MINISTER MORATINOS: (Via interpreter) Good afternoon. Thank you for being here at this press conference on the occasion of the official visit by the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Spain. I would like to use this opportunity to thank Condi Rice for coming here to Madrid, to Spain, because I think that this for the government, for Spanish society as a whole, the ...

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Interview With Zain Verjee, CNN Secretary Condoleezza Rice Potsdam, Germany May 30, 2007 QUESTION:   Secretary Rice, lovely to be with you here. SECRETARY RICE:   Good to be with you. QUESTION:   Such an historic place. SECRETARY RICE:   Historic and just beautiful. QUESTION:   You're looking at a third round of sanctions on Iran, but yet Iran is showing no sign of suspending uranium enrichment.  What makes you think that a third round of sanctions is really going to make a...

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Briefing En Route Berlin, Germany Secretary Condoleezza Rice En Route Berlin, Germany May 29, 2007 SECRETARY RICE: Well, we're off for a G-8 meeting and as is the custom with these G-8 meetings, it really gives an opportunity for foreign ministers both to preview what the heads of state will be doing at the G-8 starting on June the 6th, but also it's almost always the case that we spend a good deal of time on whatever the major issues are of the day. So I would expect that we'll talk about Darfur, about...

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Remarks at the American Chamber of Commerce Secretary Colin L. Powell Sheraton Maria Isabel Mexico City, Mexico November 25, 2002 (5:45 L) SECRETARY POWELL: Well, thank you very much, Bill, for that kind introduction. It's a great pleasure for me to be with you all this evening. Is this microphone on? Can you hear me okay? First of all, let me apologize for being late. Yeah, I don't think, I don't think it's working. How's that? There we go. Okay? First of all, let me apologize for being late. I hate to...

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Press Briefing for High School Student Newspaper Editors Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC November 18, 2002 (11:02 a.m. EST) SECRETARY POWELL: Well, good morning, everyone. Forgive me for being a few moments late. I had a meeting that I couldn't break off fast, and then finally I said -- (Photographs being taken.) What did I walk into? A camera club? (Laughter.) QUESTION: They told them they can take pictures. (Laughter.) SECRETARY POWELL: But I finally told my guests that I have to go, I had a ...

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Briefing on G-8 Ministerial With Italian Foreign Minister Ruggiero, French Foreign Minister Verdine, German Foreign Minister Fischer, and Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov Secretary Colin L. Powell Press conference at Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rome, Italy July 19, 2001 ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER RUGGIERO: Good afternoon. In the framework of the meetings of the Genoa summit, the eight Foreign Ministers of the countries that are taking part in this summit met yesterday and today together with the Mi...

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Remarks at the University of Witwatersrand Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks to University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa May 25, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you very much. Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Let me start by saying that I am deeply honored to receive a copy of your bill of rights, modeled in the fashion of our Bill of Rights. Our Bill of Rights represented the first Ten Amendments to our Constitution, and the very first of those Amendments was the right of fre...

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Remarks at the National Newspaper Association's 40th Annual Government Affairs Conference Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks to the National Newspaper Association Hyatt Regency Hotel, Washington, DC March 23, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for that warm welcome. It's a great pleasure to have the opportunity to address you again. I think it has been almost ten years since last I had this privilege, and I remember fondly that morning. I am especially touched that General ...

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Confirmation Hearing by Secretary-Designate Colin L. Powell Secretary-Designate Colin L. Powell Washington, DC January 17, 2001 Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and Chairman Biden. It is a great pleasure for me to be here this morning. I am honored to appear before the Committee as the nominee of President-elect Bush to be the Secretary of State of the United States of America. I deeply appreciate the confidence that the President-elect has placed in me. If I receive the advice and consent and approval...

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