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People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.
Advice to her protégée Kiron Skinner while Provost of Stanford University, as quoted in James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans (2004), p. 227
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It’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails, when you’re trying to make a plan work.
Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 11, 2007.
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People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.