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  • Farewell Remarks to Employees

    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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  • Exit Memo From Secretary Kerry to President Obama

    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 at a Press Availability

    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 with Irish Foreign Minister Charles Flanagan

    Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Tipperary, Ireland October 30, 2016 FOREIGN MINISTER FLANAGAN: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Golden Vale of Tipperary on this beautiful autumn morning, and in particular I want to especially welcome Secretary of State John Kerry not only to Ireland but to the heart of Ireland to receive the highly acclaimed Tipperary International Peace Award. Today, the Secretary of State joins a long list of awardees which includes Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorb...

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  • Remarks Following Receipt of the Tipperary Peace Award

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Aherlow House Hotel Tipperary, Ireland October 30, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, Martin, thank – I’m really incredibly touched, moved, very, very grateful, and hope and pray that there is no way possible that the glen of Aherlow and its beauty will remain a secret anywhere. (Laughter.) Really, you are blessed here in so many ways – blessed by your people. I thank you for your eloquence, I thank you for the honor of this award, which I accept really o...

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  • United States Election to the Human Rights Council

    Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC October 28, 2016 I am pleased the United States has been reelected by the United Nations General Assembly to a new term on the UN Human Rights Council. We thank the General Assembly for its support and pledge to continue to work closely with the international community to address urgent and serious human rights concerns worldwide and to strengthen the Council as an institution. U.S. engagement has helped transform the Council into a more balan...

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  • Remarks at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs

    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 With Students at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics

    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 During Meet and Greet at Embassy Dhaka

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Embassy Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh August 29, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: (In progress) blessed to have a terrific ambassador. She has fought against corruption in Senegal. She has been in so many difference places making a difference, India struggling at a time when we were doing the nuclear program and so forth. And when she said you are the best embassy in the world, everybody here knows she only tells the truth, right? (Laughter.) So, Marcia, thank you for what you do. T...

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  • U.S.-China Press Statements

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi Great Hall of the People Beijing, China June 7, 2016 MODERATOR: Distinguished guests, friends from the media, good afternoon. Welcome to the closing ceremony and press conference of the eighth S&ED. Today we have the pleasure of having with us the four special representatives. First let us invite special representative of President Xi, Vice Premier Wan...

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  • Secretary of State John Kerry Meets with U.S. Mission Geneva Staff

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Mission Geneva, Switzerland May 2, 2016 AMBASSADOR HAMAMOTO: Secretary, it’s so great to have you back here in Geneva. After coming here numerous times over the last couple years, it’s now been about nine months since your last visit, and I will say we were starting to worry that we weren’t your favorite post anymore. (Laughter.) So thank you very much for coming back to Geneva to dispel that notion once and for all. We like being your favorit...

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  • Remarks With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State The Kremlin Moscow, Russia March 24, 2016 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Distinguished colleagues, we are beginning the press conference of the ministers of foreign affairs here of the Russian Federation and the U.S. FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, today the State – the Secretary of State of the U.S. have had a day of negotiations in the Russian capital. First, we had a long meeting in the ministry of foreign affairs, and now, th...

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  • Press Availability With Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi

    Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs Beijing, China January 27, 2016 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Friends from the press, good afternoon. The foreign ministers of China and the United States have just had an in-depth and substantive discussion, and now, they are ready to meet the press. Now, Foreign Minister Wang will first make a statement. FOREIGN MINISTER WANG: (Via interpreter) Friends from the press, we’re sorry to have kept you waiting, and even if you...

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  • Remarks at the World Economic Forum

    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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  • Roundtable with Journalists

    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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  • Remarks before the Daily Press Briefing

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC January 7, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Happy New Year. QUESTION: Happy New Year. SECRETARY KERRY: How are you all doing? Nice to see you all. Thank you very much. So I really just – I wanted to drop by this afternoon not to steal any of John’s thunder, if that’s even possible, by taking questions. There will be plenty of time for that, believe me, over the course of the next few weeks and beyond that. But I wanted to share with you a coupl...

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  • International Human Rights Day 2015

    Press Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC December 10, 2015 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was forged in the aftermath of World War II to protect freedom and prevent future atrocities. As we commemorate it today, we recall President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1941 Four Freedoms address, which inspired the Universal Declaration, and which the United Nations selected as this year’s theme for International Human Rights Day. The “four freedoms” – of spee...

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  • Remarks on COP21 and Action Beyond Paris

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Le Bourget Paris, France December 9, 2015 SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you, Todd, extraordinarily for those more than generous words. I really, really appreciate them. I might have loved it if you found a less menacing notion than a ballistic missile. (Laughter.) But I appreciate it. At least it gets the job done. Ambassador Hartley, really nice to have you here, and Gina McCarthy, who is the head of our Environmental Protection Agency, thank you very, very much for being...

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  • Conversation With Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Professor Graham Allison

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Charles Hotel Cambridge, Massachusetts October 13, 2015 MR ALLISON: So thank you very much. Apologies for a short delay, but it’s a great honor to welcome to Harvard tonight our Secretary of State, and I’m Graham Allison, the Director of the Belfer Center. I would say we have not seen the Secretary of State exhibit such energy and determination in bringing home an agreement like the Iranian nuclear agreement. So the real purpose for me tonight is to, wit...

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  • Remarks on U.S.-China Relations

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Washington, DC November 4, 2014 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, thank you very much, Dean Nasr. I’ve had the privilege of knowing Vali for a while. When I was in the Senate, he was a very valuable advisor, and I can remember coming down to the State Department and meeting with him and with Richard Holbrooke and others in the early days of working on what was then called AfPak – Afghanistan, Pakistan, and part...

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  • Press Availability With German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

    Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Berlin Wall Memorial Visitor's Center Berlin, Germany October 22, 2014 FOREIGN MINISTER STEINMEIER: (Via interpreter) Well, ladies and gentlemen, I’m delighted that so much have come, and we’re delighted to be able to welcome my American counterpart, the American Secretary of State. I would like to extend a very warm welcome to him. Well, I’m delighted that you have come to this press conference. We’re delighted to be able to welco...

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  • Remarks at the U.S. Diplomacy Center Groundbreaking Ceremony

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, and Hillary Clinton George Marshall Conference Center Washington, DC September 3, 2014 UNDER SECRETARY KENNEDY: Good afternoon. It is my great pleasure to welcome everyone here today for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new United States Diplomacy Center. We are celebrating the start of construction of the center, a state-of-the-art museum and educational resource that wil...

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  • U.S. Vision for Asia-Pacific Engagement

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State East-West Center Honolulu, Hawaii August 13, 2014 MR. MORRISON: Well, thank you. Aloha. I want to welcome everyone. And for our online audience, and also for the Secretary, I’d like to describe who is here in our audience. We have the mayor of Honolulu, Mayor Caldwell. We have our senator, Mazie Hirono. We have our former governor, George Ariyoshi, and our other former governor, John Waihee. We have many members of the business and intellectual and public affa...

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  • Interview With David Gregory of NBC's Meet the Press

    Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC July 20, 2014 QUESTION: Secretary Kerry, welcome back to Meet the Press. SECRETARY KERRY: I’m glad to be with you, David. Thank you. QUESTION: The President demanded absolute cooperation from Russia, from the separatists in eastern Ukraine, and now the whole world is watching, and the startling developments that the rebels are removing bodies from the crash site, putting them on refrigerated trains, even talk of removing the black box. What do...

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  • Joint U.S.-China Press Statements at the Conclusion of the Strategic & Economic Dialogue

    Joint Statement John Kerry Secretary of State Secretary of Treasury Jacob Lew, Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang Great Hall of the People Beijing, China July 10, 2014 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the joint press conference of the sixth round of U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. I first give the floor to Vice Premier Wang Yang, Special Representative of Chinese President Xi Jinping. VICE PREMIER WANG: (Via interpreter) Frien...

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  • Interview With Katie Couric of Yahoo! News

    Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Department of State Washington, DC June 16, 2014 QUESTION: Hi, everyone, and welcome to a special Yahoo livestream from the State Department with Secretary of State John Kerry. Secretary Kerry, thank you so much for joining us. SECRETARY KERRY: Happy to be with you. QUESTION: We’re going to be talking about the oceans, a subject near and dear to your heart in a moment, but of course, there is a lot going on in Iraq -- SECRETARY KERRY: Absolutely. QUESTION: -...

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  • Remarks With Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Iikura Guest House Tokyo, Japan October 3, 2013 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) We would like to begin this joint press conference at the beginning. Minister Kishida, Secretary Kerry, Minister Onodera, Secretary Hagel will make initial remarks in this order, and after that I will open up the floor for questions. So I would like to invite Mr. Kishida, Minister. MINISTER KISHIDA: (Via interpreter) So let me make some initial remarks. Today, we had, for the first time in ...

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  • Remarks With French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at Joint Press Availability

    Press Availability John Kerry Secretary of State Quai d'Orsay, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Paris, France September 7, 2013 FOREIGN MINISTER FABIUS: (Via interpreter) -- Kerry. I would like to commend both your energy and your ability to convince as well as your very reliable judgment or point of view. Together with the Secretary of State we discussed a number of topics, including, of course, Israel and Palestine and as well Syria, of course. Let me start with a few comments. What we’ve been seeing...

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  • FY 2014 Budget Request for Foreign Operations

    Testimony John Kerry Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations Washington, DC April 18, 2013 Well, Mr. Chairman, President Pro Tem, thank you very, very much – Senator Harkin, Senator Johanns. It’s great to be here with you guys. And I’m still getting used to being on this side of dais, but it’s a pleasure to be in front of this committee. And Mr. Chairman, let me say to you, I know you caused a lot of consternation &nd...

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  • FY 2014 International Affairs Budget

    Testimony John Kerry Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC April 18, 2013 Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Corker, and members of the committee, thank you very much. It’s a privilege to be back here, though still a little surreal to be on this side of the dais. But I’m honored to be back here, and I thank all of you for your generous comments and particularly for the cooperation on any number of issues along the way. Thank you for your me...

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  • FY 2014 Foreign Affairs Budget

    Testimony John Kerry Secretary of State Opening Remarks Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Washington, DC April 17, 2013 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube . Well, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I ask you just to remember what goes around comes around. (Laughter.) Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Congressman Engel, Ranking Member. Thank you for your comments about Boston. It’s impossible for me to express my sadness and my anger, frankly, over those terrible even...

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  • Remarks With Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se After Their Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Foreign Ministry Seoul, South Korea April 12, 2013 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube . MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We will now begin the joint press conference of the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea Yun Byung-se and the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. They will have opening statements, and then we will take questions from the floor. First, Minister Yun will present the opening statement....

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  • Meeting With Staff and Families of Embassy Paris

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Chief of Mission Residence Paris, France February 27, 2013 Merci beaucoup, Monsieur l’Ambassadeur (Laughter), je suis tres content d’etre ici. Merci a tout le monde. Bonjour! I’m really happy to be here. And though the Foreign Service is in my blood, I have no intention of bleeding while I’m here. (Laughter.) Let me introduce to all of you – I’m going to say a few words about Charlie in a minute, but we have the Ambassador from UN...

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  • Remarks With Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida Before Their Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC February 22, 2013 The video below is available with closed captioning on YouTube . SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. It’s my great pleasure to welcome the Foreign Minister of Japan, His Excellency Fumio Kishida. We’ve just come from an excellent meeting of the President and the Prime Minister of Japan, and I think it’s fair to say that almost every topic with respect to Japanese-American relations was discussed....

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  • Remarks With UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Before Their Meeting

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC February 14, 2013 Video is available with closed captioning on YouTube . SECRETARY KERRY: Happy Valentine’s Day, everybody, and greetings. Good to see you all. It’s a huge pleasure for me to welcome Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon back to Washington and here to the State Department. We are about to meet. We haven’t met yet. We’re going to have a chance to be able to talk through a number of topics. But we know above a...

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  • Remarks to a Foreign Policy Classroom

    Remarks John Kerry Secretary of State George C. Marshall Auditorium Washington, DC February 7, 2013 Thank you very much. How are you? How’s everybody doing? Welcome. I gather we’ve got folks from a bunch of colleges and universities around here, right? At least a few? We’ve got some Hoyas here, some Colonials and Bisons, Patriots? Who’s a Patriot here? I’m partial to the Patriots, for obvious reasons, but we didn’t do so well this year. I wanted to drop by for a few m...

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  • Remarks on American Leadership at the Council on Foreign Relations

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC January 31, 2013 The video is available with closed captioning on YouTube . SECRETARY CLINTON:  Thank you, Richard, for that introduction and for everything you’ve done to lead this very valuable institution. I also want to thank the board of the Council on Foreign Relations and all my friends and colleagues and other interested citizens who are here today, because you respect the Council, you understand the important work that ...

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  • Remarks at Final Town Hall Meeting With Department of State Personnel

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Dean Acheson Auditorium Washington, DC January 30, 2013 UNDER SECRETARY KENNEDY: I have received my orders. Please sit. (Laughter.) Good morning ladies and gentlemen, Madam Secretary. Just one reminder, we are broadcasting this event on BNET, so when we get to the question period, please keep your questions diplomatic. (Laughter.) Four years ago, I stood at this microphone and said that I was about to introduce someone who needs no introduction. Since I ...

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  • Interview With Andrea Mitchell of NBC

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC January 29, 2013 QUESTION: Madam Secretary, thank you so much for joining us. Important moment as you leave this office. Are you thinking about your legacy? Henry Kissinger negotiated peace with Vietnam; Jim Baker had Middle East accords; of course, there was the Marshall Plan with George Marshall. What do you want your legacy to be? SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, Andrea, I think given the inheritance we had when we came into office in this Ad...

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  • Interview With Cynthia McFadden of ABC

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC January 29, 2013 QUESTION: Well, Secretary Clinton, this is your – first of all, thank you for letting us come and talk to you. SECRETARY CLINTON: Of course. I’m so happy to see you again. QUESTION: This is your last television interview as Secretary of State. SECRETARY CLINTON: Hard to believe, Cynthia. It feels like the time has just flown by. QUESTION: In Moscow three years ago, you told me, “I have absolutely no int...

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  • Secretary Clinton Holds a Global Townterview

    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 at the Foreign Policy Group's "Transformational Trends 2013" Forum

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State The Newseum Washington, DC November 29, 2012 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, David, and I’ll look forward to seeing your Ellen DeGeneres imitation. I’m very pleased to be here, and I want to thank all of you for your attention to this event and the topics that have been covered. Before I begin, I want to say a few words about the unfortunate and counterproductive resolution at the United Nations General Assembly that just passed, beca...

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  • Remarks With Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Great Hall of the People Beijing, China September 5, 2012 MODERATOR: (Via interpreter.) Ladies and gentlemen, the joint press conference of Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will now begin. Now Foreign Minister Yang will make an opening statement. FOREIGN MINISTER YANG: (In Chinese.) MODERATOR: (Via interpreter.) Now Secretary Clinton will make an opening statement. SECRETARY CLINTON: Let me begin by thanking Foreign Min...

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  • Press Availability in Busan, South Korea

    Press Availability Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Busan Exhibition and Convention Center Busan, South Korea November 30, 2011 SECRETARY CLINTON: Hello, everyone. It’s a great pleasure to be back in the Republic of Korea. Before I begin, I want to say a brief word about yesterday’s events at the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran. The United States condemns this attack in the strongest possible terms. It is an affront, not only to the British people but also to the international commu...

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  • America's Pacific Century

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State East-West Center Honolulu, HI November 10, 2011 DR. MORRISON: Aloha. AUDIENCE: Aloha. DR. MORRISON: How do you introduce the Secretary of State? And I think the first thing I think of as a public servant, we sometimes hear the word public servant spoken in a kind of derogatory tone. But the public servants that I’ve known, the members of our state and local government, members of our Congress, members of the international community, with a lot of v...

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  • Interview With Reuters

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC October 11, 2011 QUESTION: Thanks very much for doing this. SECRETARY CLINTON: I’m happy to do it – glad this worked out. QUESTION: We should have tea more often. (Laughter.) SECRETARY CLINTON: That’s right. Exactly. Well, when I invited you, I wanted to talk about these two speeches that I’m giving this week. And obviously, there are a lot of other things going on in the world. But just so that I fulfill my oblig...

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  • Interview With Michel Ghandour of Al Hurra

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Manama, Bahrain December 3, 2010 QUESTION: Madam Secretary, first, thank you for your time. I don’t want to ask you about WikiLeaks. You’ve already answered so many questions. I’m going to stick to the peace process; a Palestinian official has said yesterday that American administration has informed the Palestinian Authority about its failure to secure a new settlement phase. Why you have failed, and what will be the next step? SECRETAR...

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  • Town Hall on Empowering Civil Society for Central Asia's Future

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Eurasian University Astana, Kazakhstan November 30, 2010 AMBASSADOR ZHARBUSSYNOVA: Ladies and gentlemen, today I am truly honored to welcome the Secretary of State Madam Hillary Clinton. Madam, all of us present here today are grateful that despite the challenging schedule and the long flight, you were willing to have this meeting with representative of the civil society and other organizations and students of the university. Now that Astana air is fille...

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  • Remarks at Christchurch Town Hall Meeting with Students and Civic Leaders

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Christchurch, New Zealand November 5, 2010 MODERATOR: Hello, everyone. My name is Dr. Therese Arsenau. I’m from the University of Canterbury. And I have to say I have a very easy job this afternoon. I’m introducing a woman who needs absolutely no introduction. It’s fair to say that Mrs. Clinton has been at the very heart of American political power and a political heavyweight for two decades, and she’s now brought these incredible...

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  • Remarks on the Human Rights Agenda for the 21st Century

    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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  • Remarks With Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos After Their Meeting

    Press Availability Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC December 14, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good morning. And it’s a particular pleasure for me to welcome the foreign minister to Washington. After my first year as Secretary of State nearly completed, he has been a wonderful counterpart. And of course, Spain is such a valued friend and ally. We are united in a broad partnership based on our many common values, as well as our mutual interests. And I want to exp...

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  • Remarks in Advance of the United Nations General Assembly

    Speech Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Brookings Institution Washington, DC September 18, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you very much. Well, it is a great delight to be back here at Brookings through that revolving door, which really does go both directions. I spoke with Strobe shortly after I was asked to take this job as Secretary of State and began thinking about who needed to be in this new Administration. And he ruefully said, “I know you’re going to decimate the pl...

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  • Interview With Fareed Zakaria of CNN

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Nairobi, Kenya August 6, 2009 QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thank you very much for taking time out of this very hectic schedule to spend it with us. SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you, Fareed, and thank you for coming to Nairobi for this opportunity. QUESTION: It’s my pleasure. Let me take you back a little bit. Let me ask you – you are somebody who has had an incredibly full life with many different accomplishments. But much of it was not spent i...

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  • Interview With Andrea Mitchell of NBC

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Intercontinental Hotel Nairobi, Kenya August 5, 2009 QUESTION: Madame Secretary. You are here in Nairobi and we are talking about Pyongyang. And this is because of the dramatic rescue mission that your husband managed to complete successfully. I know you haven’t had time to talk to him about all of the details. As we sit here, he’s still flying back. But you did talk to him briefly. What was the feeling, the emotion? SECRETARY CLINTON: Andr...

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  • Release of Two Journalists From North Korea

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Excerpt from Press Availability with Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula Nairobi, Kenya August 5, 2009 We have been working hard on the release of the two journalists. We have always considered that a totally separate issue from our efforts to reengage the North Koreans and have them return to the Six-Party Talks and work toward a commitment for the full, verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. I was very pleased to get the news ...

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  • Remarks With Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Kenyatta International Conference Centre Nairobi, Kenya August 5, 2009 FOREIGN MINISTER WETANGULA: Good afternoon, gentlemen and ladies from the media. I’m happy to be here this afternoon with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who jetted in last evening to attend the AGOA Forum. After the opening of the forum, where you all were, she’s had very in-depth bilateral discussions with President Mwai Kibaki, who was accompanied by the Right Honor...

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  • Interview With David Gregory of Meet the Press

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC July 26, 2009 QUESTION: But first, here she is, the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Welcome back to Meet the Press. SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you, David. It’s great to be here with you. QUESTION: Glad to have you. And you’re here for the full hour, so we have a lot to get to. SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, with your preview into it, there’s a lot to talk about in the world today. QUESTION: Absolutely. So let’s get ri...

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  • Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relations

    Speech Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC July 15, 2009 Thank you very much, Richard, and I am delighted to be here in these new headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it’s good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future. Ri...

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  • Remarks At Barnard College Commencement Ceremony

    Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State New York, New York May 18, 2009 Thank you so much. I am thrilled to be here and to participate in this important commencement of this great university – this great college, because I, too, am a graduate of a women’s college – (applause) – and I think it’s the best investment that I and my parents ever made. It is my honor, therefore, to join you in celebrating. And I want to congratulate all of the student speakers, who I th...

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  • Interview with James Rosen of Fox

    Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Baghdad, Iraq April 25, 2009 MR. ROSEN: Madam Secretary, thank you once again for this honor. SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you, James. MR. ROSEN: I thought that, perhaps, we might begin by establishing for the record that, although you’re not one who is inclined, necessarily, to play favorites, that I am, in fact, you’re favorite reporter. We can acknowledge this. SECRETARY CLINTON: You’re not supposed to tell anyone that, James. (Laughte...

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  • Interview With Mike Schneider of Bloomberg TV

    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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  • Nomination Hearing To Be Secretary of State

    Testimony Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State , Secretary of State Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Washington, DC January 13, 2009 Thank you, Senator Schumer, for your generous introduction, and even more for your support and our partnership over so many years. You are a valued and trusted colleague, a friend, and a tribute to the people of New York whom you have served with such distinction throughout your career. Mr. Chairman, I offer my congratulations as you take o...

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  • Interview With The Washington Post Editorial Board

    Interview With The Washington Post Editorial Board Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC January 12, 2009 QUESTION: We’re on the record? MR. MCCORMACK: Yep. QUESTION: Well, I’ll take the privilege of starting with our favorite subject. What do you think – what have we learned from the latest pipelines discussion between Russia and Ukraine and Europe? And is this one different from the last one, and do you see the Russians learning anything different? SECRETARY RICE: Well, I think w...

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  • Interview With Rita Braver of CBS Sunday Morning

    Interview With Rita Braver of CBS Sunday Morning Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 22, 2008 QUESTION: You know, other than the President and Vice President, you have become such a symbol for this Administration. What’s that been like for you? SECRETARY RICE: Oh, I don’t think of myself as a symbol. I just think of myself as someone who’s tried to do a good job on behalf of the country. And I think we have managed to keep the country safe. And for those of us who were t...

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  • Interview With Sylvie Lanteaume, Lachlan Carmichael, and Jordi Zamora Barceló of Agence France-Presse

    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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  • Interview on NBC's Meet the Press with David Gregory

    Interview on NBC's Meet the Press with David Gregory Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 21, 2008 QUESTION: But first, we welcome back the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for her 20 th appearance on this program over the past eight years. Thank you for being willing to come on the program and explain your views all these times. SECRETARY RICE: It’s a pleasure to be with you, David. QUESTION: Thank you. SECRETARY RICE: And congratulations on taking over the post. QUESTION: Thank ...

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  • Remarks From Daughters and Sons Meeting at the Council on Foreign Relations

    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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  • Situation in Somalia

    Situation in Somalia Secretary Condoleezza Rice Remarks Following the UN Security Council Meeting on the Situation in Somalia New York City, New York December 16, 2008 View Video   SECRETARY RICE: I’ve just attended a very successful Security Council session on piracy. The Security Council adopted Resolution 1851, which is a very strong resolution that deals with issues of detention of pirates, with the prosecution of pirates, with the ability to use all necessary means on land as well as at ...

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  • Roundtable With Associated Press

    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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  • Interview on CBS News Radio with Dan Raviv and Charles Wolfson

    Interview on CBS News Radio with Dan Raviv and Charles Wolfson Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 9, 2008 QUESTION: Welcome to the Marshall Room at the State Department. I’m Dan Raviv of CBS News here for a radio interview with the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Thanks so much for joining us, Madame Secretary. SECRETARY RICE: It’s a pleasure to be with you. QUESTION: And I’m here with our State Department reporter Charles Wolfson. Good morning, Charlie. QUESTION: ...

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  • Interview With Michele Kelemen of NPR

    Interview With Michele Kelemen of NPR Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 9, 2008 QUESTION: So before we look back, I want to sort of look ahead because you’re very emotional talking about what this moment in history means to have an African American president coming in. And I wonder if you think that’ll help the U.S. overcome its image problems in the world. SECRETARY RICE: Well, the U.S. so-called image problems, I think, also relate largely to the fact that people sometimes...

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  • Interview on ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos

    Interview on ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 7, 2008 QUESTION: Hello again. We begin today in one of her final interviews as Secretary of State with Condoleezza Rice. Madame Secretary, welcome back to This Week. SECRETARY RICE: Thank you. Good to be with you, George. QUESTION: So you are not coasting in your final days. SECRETARY RICE: Right. QUESTION: Just back from India and Pakistan, of course, after those horrific attacks in Mumbai. And i...

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  • Remarks on the NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting

    Remarks on the NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC November 26, 2008 View Video    SECRETARY RICE: All right. I wanted to come down before the Thanksgiving holiday and before some significant meetings that I’ll participate in next week, just to give you a little bit of an update on where we are on a couple of issues and then I’m happy to take your questions. As you know, I’m going to travel to Brussels to attend the NATO foreign ministers ...

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  • Interview With Steve Scully of C-SPAN

    Interview With Steve Scully of C-SPAN Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC November 10, 2008 QUESTION: Secretary of State Rice, how does the world view America? SECRETARY RICE: Well, the world views America still, I think, as a place where you can be anybody and do anything, where it doesn’t matter where you came from; it matters where you’re going. I think that’s why there was such great interest in our recent election, because it talked about overcoming old wounds. And I think m...

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  • Press Conference by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

    Press Conference by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 21, 2007 View Video (10:17 a.m. EST) SECRETARY RICE: Good morning. I'm here principally to take your questions, but I'd like to make a few remarks before doing that. 2007 has been a busy and challenging year, but also a positive one. I want to highlight just a few issues on which we've focused. I was just in Iraq and I can tell you that Iraq today is a different country than it was two -- a year ag...

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  • Interview With Jonathan Beale of BBC News

    Interview With Jonathan Beale of BBC News Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 20, 2007 QUESTION: Madame Secretary, you've invested a lot of time and effort in the last year in the Middle East. Has this now become your number one foreign policy objective, trying to break the deadlock between the Israelis and Palestinians? SECRETARY RICE: Well, it is clearly an important objective, one of the most important objectives. I don't have the luxury of just doing one thing. As Secretary of State o...

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  • USA Today Editorial Board Roundtable

    USA Today Editorial Board Roundtable Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 11, 2007 (3:15 p.m. EST) SECRETARY RICE: All right. Why don't we launch right in, because I think we only have about 45 minutes. MR. MCCORMACK: 45 minutes, on the record. QUESTION: Okay. Thank you for taking the time to meet with us. SECRETARY RICE: Of course, glad to do it. QUESTION: We can see a lot of progress on the ground in Iraq and in many different ways, but it's very hard to see through to the endgame, which...

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  • Interview With the Dallas Morning News Editorial Board

    Interview With the Dallas Morning News Editorial Board Secretary Condoleezza Rice Dallas, Texas November 9, 2007 MODERATOR: You are meeting with the Editorial Board of the Dallas Morning News. Around the table (inaudible). We are pleased to have you here and very interested in your thoughts on developments around the world, both in the short term and in the long term. I think we would probably be remiss -- oh, and I should also point out we have our international editor as well from the newsroom here. Q...

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  • Interview With the New York Post Editorial Board

    Interview With the New York Post Editorial Board Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York City October 1, 2007 QUESTION: Welcome. SECRETARY RICE: Thank you. Nice to be here. Thank you. QUESTION: Do you have any messages for us today? SECRETARY RICE: I don't. I'll just start out with whatever is on your mind. I'm sure we'll get to plenty of my messages as we go. QUESTION: Might as well start with Iraq. SECRETARY RICE: Yeah, sure. QUESTION: Now that the surge, the troop surge, seems to be working, what are the...

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  • Interview With Matthew Swibel of Forbes Magazine

    Interview With Matthew Swibel of Forbes Magazine Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York, New York September 30, 2007 Complete Interview Series with Forbes Magazine: 8.07.2008 - 3.11.2008 - 12.03.2007 - 10.15.2007 - 09.30.2007 QUESTION:  I'd like to start out talking a little bit about your -- how you define diplomatic process, okay? So someone who worked on your team I spoke to recently said that, to him, it's like gardening, something you're tending to all the time, but you never leave it comple...

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  • Interview With the Fox News Editorial Board

    Interview With the Fox News Editorial Board Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York City September 25, 2007 QUESTION: Madame Secretary, I turn it over to you to kind of take over, and whenever you want we'll fire some questions. SECRETARY RICE: Great. Well, thanks very much for having me here, and mostly we should just go directly to whatever questions you might have. I'm sure that'll take us into lots of different areas. QUESTION: Well, what's the status - on or off the record? SECRETARY RICE: We're on the...

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  • Interview by John Kerin of the Australian Financial Review

    Interview by John Kerin of the Australian Financial Review Secretary Condoleezza Rice Sydney, Australia September 6, 2007 QUESTION: Look, I just wanted to begin by just asking you about the four-way talks involving India, Australia, Japan and the United States. Just to get your view on -- you know, there's been a bit of debate in Australia about whether it's about China or not about China -- SECRETARY RICE: Right. QUESTION: -- and for what the American view is, I guess, of those particular talks and how...

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  • Interview With Kevin Chappell of Ebony Magazine

    Interview With Kevin Chappell of Ebony Magazine Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC August 8, 2007 QUESTION: I think I talked with you last back in 2005. SECRETARY RICE: Yeah, right. Good. QUESTION: You've been busy. SECRETARY RICE: It's been a long time. (Laughter.) I liked talking to you, yeah. QUESTION: How was your trip to the Middle East? SECRETARY RICE: It was a good trip to the Middle East. This is going to be one of several, I think, that will give me an opportunity to lay some groundwork ...

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  • Interview With Patrick Poivre d'Arvor of TF-1

    Interview With Patrick Poivre d'Arvor of TF-1 Secretary Condoleezza Rice Paris, France June 25, 2007 QUESTION: (In French.) SECRETARY RICE: I talked today at the conference; asking others about obligations that heads of state undertook in the United Nations General Assembly called the (inaudible). And it means that when there are innocent populations like the kind that we’ve seen in Darfur – first of all, there’s a responsibility of their government, but if their government cannot or w...

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  • Interview With the New York Daily News Editorial Board

    Interview With the New York Daily News Editorial Board Secretary Condoleezza Rice New York, New York June 8, 2007 QUESTION: If I may, I'll just start with one. I don't know why I'm quoting another newspaper, but what the heck. There is a story about -- in the Financial Times about the difficulties getting the Iraqi (inaudible) Government to sort of resolve the issue (inaudible) and so on. How do you intend (inaudible) there and (inaudible) attitude (inaudible)? SECRETARY RICE: Well, they clearly need to...

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  • Interview on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer

    Interview on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC December 29, 2002 MR. BLITZER:   Mr. Secretary, thanks once again for joining us.   The issue at hand right now, there seems to be a crisis between the United States, on the one hand, and its allies, and North Korea.   But you're apparently refusing to say this is a crisis.   SECRETARY POWELL:   Well, I don't like the word "crisis."   It suggests we're about to move forces or there's ...

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  • Remarks to National Association of Manufacturers

    Remarks to National Association of Manufacturers Secretary Colin L. Powell Board of Directors Meeting Monarch Hotel, Washington, DC October 31, 2001 3:00 p.m. EDT SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you so very much, ladies and gentlemen, for that warm welcome. And Don, I thank you for your kind and generous introduction. And I am pleased to follow the many distinguished colleagues of mine. You have heard from within the Administration already the President and my other Cabinet colleagues, and I am pleased to have ...

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  • Interview at Associated Press Roundtable

    Interview at Associated Press Roundtable Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC June 22, 2001 MR. REEKER: Let me -- I'm Philip Reeker, the Deputy Spokesman. Just a note, we are on the record here. If the Secretary chooses something that we'll do on background, he will note that. And Barry, can you start? Q: Unfortunately, two Israeli soldiers were just killed in Gaza. I was going to ask about the Middle East, also because your trip is coming up. I have heard two different Arab leaders, Shaath and the ...

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  • Prepared Statement for the Record on the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002

    Prepared Statement for the Record on the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002 Secretary Colin L. Powell Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations Washington, DC May 15, 2001 As Delivered As Prepared Mr. Chairman, members of the subcommittee, I am pleased to appear before you for the first time as Secretary of State, and to testify in support of the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002. This Budget represents a needed increase in the Dep...

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  • Prepared Testimony on the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002

    Prepared Testimony on the President's International Affairs Budget for FY 2002 Secretary Colin L. Powell House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Other Programs Washington, DC May 10, 2001 [As Delivered] As Prepared Mr. Chairman, members of the subcommittee, I am pleased to appear before you for the first time as Secretary of State, and to testify in support of the President�s International Affairs Budget for FY 2002.  This Budget represents a needed increase in...

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  • Remarks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

    Remarks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC March 19, 2001 Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. (Applause.) Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you, Tim, for that very kind introduction. It's a great pleasure to be back here to speak to AIPAC. Amazing that it has been ten years. And it is especially charming to be introduced as the son of an immigrant to the United States who entered the shmata business. I haven't heard that in ...

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  • Testimony at Budget Hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

    Testimony at Budget Hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Secretary Colin L. Powell Washington, DC March 8, 2001 Well, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and Senator Biden for your welcome. It's good to be back before the committee, this time as the Secretary of State. And I thank you for the prompt consideration of my nomination just a few short weeks ago. I've been the Secretary of State for five and a half weeks. I must admit it's starting to feel like five and a half months, if not fi...

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  • Confirmation Hearing by Secretary-Designate Colin L. Powell

    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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