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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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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Washington, DC August 5, 2014 QUESTION: Secretary of State John Kerry, welcome to HARDtalk. SECRETARY KERRY: Pleasure to be with you. QUESTION: Scott Eisner from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has said that he and others have been pressing the Obama Administration for years to hold this kind of summit. To quote, he says, “If you want CEOs to pay attention, you’re going to need the commander-in-chief to take charge.” What took President Obama so lon...

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Interview John Kerry Secretary of State Doha, Qatar March 5, 2013 QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you for this honor. SECRETARY KERRY: Delighted to be with you. Thank you. QUESTION: I know it’s early in your tenure, but I wonder if your experience to date, and particularly your exposure to me, has led you to the conclusion that this is the best job you’ve ever had. SECRETARY KERRY: (Laughter.) No answer needed. QUESTION: All right, very good. Let’s start with Syria. SECRETARY KERRY: Act...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Lima, Peru October 15, 2012 QUESTION: Secretary Clinton, thank you so much for joining CNN. I want to talk a little bit about the Benghazi attack. September 11th, the evening of this horrible day you get a call that the consulate in Benghazi was attacked, and the Ambassador has died. What goes through your head at that moment? SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, Elise, this was a many-hour ordeal that we were all involved in, and I was deeply concerned, as you wo...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Islamabad, Pakistan October 28, 2009 Interviewers: Nasim Zehra, Dunya TV Talat Husain, AAJ TV Mubashir Luqman, Express TV Hamid Mir, Geo TV Naveen Naqvi, Dawn News Moeed Pirzada, Dunya TV Anwar ul-Hassan, PTV   MR. PIRZADA: Today, this is an entrusting, an entrusting new chapter and entrusting new opening in U.S.-Pakistan relationship. And in evidence of the emphasis the new Obama Administration places on people-...

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Interview Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC October 6, 2009   QUESTION: Secretary Clinton, let me ask you about the decision that President Obama is facing. He has a critical decision to make about the road ahead in Afghanistan. How important is this in terms of not only the immediate ramifications, but for U.S. policy long-term, U.S. foreign policy?   SECRETARY CLINTON: Katie, that’s, I think, one of the best ways to pose this, because you’re right – t...

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Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State U.S. Chamber of Commerce Washington, DC June 17, 2009 Thank you. Thank you all so much. It is a great pleasure for me to be back here at the Chamber for such an important occasion. I want to thank David for that introduction, and I want to thank my friend, Indra, for those very kind words. It gives you an idea of how much we admire each other and her leadership of a great American company with obviously international reach.   To Ron Summers and to t...

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Interview With April Ryan of American Urban Radio Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC January 14, 2009 QUESTION: I’m with our esteemed Secretary of State, Dr. – Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice. And it’s always a pleasure to sit and talk with you, and I thank you for keeping your promise as we were in the Rose Garden at an African visit and you said, yes, we will do this. And today, as we are conducting this interview, we’ve got a lot of news going on. Not the obvio...

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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 Zain Verjee of CNN Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 17, 2008 QUESTION: Thank you so much, Madame Secretary. SECRETARY RICE: Pleasure to be with you. QUESTION: You’ve been in the Bush Administration for eight years. SECRETARY RICE: Yes. QUESTION: What’s been the best moment? SECRETARY RICE: Well, there have been a lot of great moments: seeing the Afghans liberate themselves from the Taliban; seeing the Iraqis vote for the first time; going for the first time t...

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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 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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Interview on CNN's Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 7, 2008 QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thanks very much for coming in. SECRETARY RICE: Pleasure to be with you, Wolf. QUESTION: You’re just back from the region, India, Pakistan. How concerned are you that these nuclear rivals, that there could be a misconception out there, a miscalculation, and this tension between the two of them, which is real right now, could escalate? SECRETARY RICE: Well, we hav...

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Interview on Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC December 7, 2008 QUESTION: Secretary Rice, welcome back to Fox News Sunday. SECRETARY RICE: Pleasure to be with you, Chris. QUESTION: Are you persuaded by the evidence you’ve seen that the Mumbai attack was launched from Pakistan, and are there signs the attackers were trained either by current or former Pakistani military or intelligence? SECRETARY RICE: Well, we have passed information to both India and Pak...

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Press Conference in New Delhi, India Secretary Condoleezza Rice New Delhi, India December 3, 2008 SECRETARY RICE: Good afternoon. I wish to start by just underscoring what President Bush has said a couple of days ago, and that is that the United States of America wants to express its deepest condolences to the people of India and particularly to the people of Mumbai. The United States stands in solidarity with India in meeting this challenge and this testing and terrible time. I think perhaps we have so...

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Remarks at NATO Headquarters Secretary Condoleezza Rice NATO Headquarters Brussels, Belgium December 2, 2008 View Video SECRETARY RICE: Good evening. Well, I have just concluded my last ministerial as the Secretary of State for the United States. And I had a chance to participate, obviously, in the discussions of the important issues before us, but also for a moment to reflect with my colleagues on the extraordinary eight years that I have spent here, first as National Security Advisor accompanying Pres...

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Interview on ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos Secretary Condoleezza Rice Crawford, Texas November 11, 2007 QUESTION: Good morning, Madame Secretary. SECRETARY RICE: Good morning, George. QUESTION: A mixed message this morning from General Musharraf. What's your reaction? SECRETARY RICE: Well, my reaction is that the positive element here is that elections are going to be held and held very soon, and also that the President said he was going to take off his uniform. These have both been essenti...

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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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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Announces Departure of Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen P. Hughes Secretary Condoleezza Rice Washington, DC October 31, 2007 View Video SECRETARY RICE: Good morning. I told Karen just as we were out in the anteroom that I had changed my mind, I was not going to make this announcement. (Laughter.) But it is really with a great deal of sadness but also a great deal of happiness for what she has achieved that I announce on behalf of ...

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Briefing En Route Moscow, Russia Secretary Condoleezza Rice En Route Moscow, Russia October 11, 2007 SECRETARY RICE: We're on our way to Moscow and I will meet up there with Secretary Gates, and we intend to initiate a forum called the 2+2, which is the foreign ministers and the defense ministers getting together to talk about a variety of security and political-military issues. I think it's going to be a very good format. We've not done this. I think it may have been held at one point in time earlier i...

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Interview With Pablo Gato of Telemundo Secretary Condoleezza Rice Panama City, Panama June 4, 2007 QUESTION: First of all, obviously there has been a very tense session, to put it mildly, today at the OAS. The Venezuelan Foreign Minister made first some accusations against the United States saying that immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico border are treated like or hunted down like animals. He says that the U.S. is basically showing hypocrisy and even went beyond saying that it reminds him of the likes of Hitl...

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Press Availability With Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller, EU High Representative Javier Solana, and European Union Commissioner Chris Patten Secretary Colin L. Powell Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC December 18, 2002 SECRETARY POWELL: Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to thank Foreign Minister Moeller, High Representative Solana and External Affairs Commissioner Patten for coming to Washington for our semiannual U.S.-European Union meeting of foreign ministers. As th...

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Press Briefing on Board Plane Secretary Colin L. Powell En Route Bogota December 3, 2002 SECRETARY POWELL: Everybody here, OK? Good. Thank you for joining me on this relatively short trip, by usual standards, to Colombia. As you know, this is my third try at this trip. Some of you will vividly remember 9/11 when we were in Lima, Peru, and I was supposed to be heading to Colombia that afternoon. Then there was another occasion since when I had a crisis interrupt my plans to visit Colombia. But, I wanted ...

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Press Briefing on Board Plane En Route Tashkent, Uzbekistan Secretary Colin L. Powell Tashkent, Uzbekistan December 7, 2001 SECRETARY POWELL : Okay, who�s first? QUESTION : Can you tell us how your meeting with Foreign Minister Ivanov went? What did you decide? What were the issues that you discussed? Are they okay with the NATO thing? And did you talk about Iraq? SECRETARY POWELL : Foreign Minister Ivanov and I talked about the meeting that we had just concluded with the Permanent Joint Council, and he...

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United States Position on Terrorists and Peace in the Middle East Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks at the McConnell Center for Political Leadership University of Louisville, Kentucky November 19, 2001 11:17 a.m. EST SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you so very much, ladies and gentlemen, for that warm welcome, and I thank you, Senator McConnell for that very kind and generous introduction. It is a tribute to you, Mitch, my friend, that we are all here today. The McConnell Center for Political Leadership carries...

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Campaign Against Terrorism Secretary Colin L. Powell House International Relations Committee Washington, DC October 24, 2001 [ As Delivered ] As Prepared Mr. Chairman. Mr. Lantos. Members of the Committee. I am pleased to appear before you today to update you on our nation�s diplomatic response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as to report to you on my recent trip to Pakistan, India, and China. Before I begin, I would like to take a moment to commend you, Mr. Chairman, along with this Comm...

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Remarks with External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh of India Secretary Colin L. Powell New Delhi, India October 17, 2001 MINISTER SINGH: Ladies and gentlemen of the press, good afternoon. It�s my distinct pleasure to be here with my friend, the Secretary of State, to meet all of you. I had the pleasure of the occasion to meet him very recently in Washington on the 2 nd of October, and I am delighted to be able to play host to him since yesterday. He leaves shortly for Shanghai, but as the Prime Ministe...

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