“It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work.”

—  Condoleezza Rice

Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011100437_3.html, January 11, 2007.

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