Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Quotes by Linda Thomas-Greenfield
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Dream big enough to scare you. You're going to get to someplace you might not have imagined yourself getting to.
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Throughout my career, from Jamaica to Nigeria, Pakistan to Switzerland, I've learned that effective diplomacy means more than shaking hands and staging photo ops. It means developing real, robust relationships. It means finding common ground and managing points of differentiation. It means doing genuine, old-fashioned, people-to-people diplomacy.
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The United States is a steadfast supporter of U.N. Peacekeeping.
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Asour counterterrorism approaches evolve,we cannot waiveronhuman rights andfree expression. Because ultimately,our steadfast commitment to thoserightsand freedomsare our most powerful counterterrorism tool of all.
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As the international community comes together to create rules for developing and deploying technology, America and its allies and partners aim to advance peace, protect human rights, promote sustainable development and defend the open Internet for the benefit of all.
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Dealing with global health, dealing with AIDS, with tuberculosis, with malaria, with future pandemics, is extraordinarily important, and that will be a huge priority for us.
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At the beginning of my career, I visited a Sudanese refugee camp in Uganda and saw a two-year-old girl die before my eyes. The technical term for what this girl experienced, when you are too thin and malnourished for your size, is childhood wasting. And it was, indeed, a waste. A young life - with all its potential - gone forever.
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The fact that I made it to where I made it, when I look at where I came, I think is a message to the world and it's also a message to other young people who come from diverse and underprivileged backgrounds, that where they come from does not necessarily have to define where they are going.
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The challenges we face, a global pandemic, global economy, global climate change crisis, mass migration, extreme poverty, social justice, are unrelenting and interconnected, but they're not unresolvable if America is leading the way.
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It's no secret that some of the worst abusers of digital technologies hold a veto in the Security Council. But that is precisely why we must engage in tough diplomacy. We cannot cede our digital futures to governments that would misuse and abuse these technologies.
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We don't play down human rights violations anywhere in the world, including in Yemen.
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