“People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.”

— Condoleezza Rice

Advice given to her protégée, Kiron Skinner, while serving as Provost at Stanford University; quoted in James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans (Penguin Books, New York: 2004, ISBN 0-143-03489-8, p. 227.

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American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; po… 1954

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