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Nikki Haley

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Nikki Haley is an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 to December 2018. She was the first female governor of South Carolina, holding office from January 2011 to January 2017. As governor, Haley focused on economic development, education reform, and job creation, and she gained national attention for her leadership during the aftermath of the Charleston church shooting in 2015, where she called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds.

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Apr 12, 2017

You know what's amazing? And this has happened my entire work career is everyone thinks that I'm ambitious and everybody thinks I'm trying to run for something and everybody thinks I want more. And the truth of it is I'm just passionate.

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Apr 12, 2017

If you want something said ask a man. If you want something done ask a woman.

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Apr 9, 2017

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley seemed to broach the idea over he weekend, before the administration clarified her remarks.

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Apr 9, 2017

If you look at his actions, if you look at the situation, it's going to be hard to see a government that's peaceful and stable with Assad. Regime change is something that we think is going to happen because all of the parties are going to…

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Apr 9, 2017

Regime change is something that we think is going to happen because all of the parties are going to see that Assad is not the leader that needs to be taking place for Syria.

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Apr 6, 2017

The United States took a very measured step last night. We are prepared to do more. But we hope that will not be necessary.

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Apr 4, 2017

I think the approach that Ambassador Nikki Haley is taking is so refreshing.

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Apr 4, 2017

The United States should continue to exert pressure on the Kabila regime to open the political space, protect citizens' rights and liberties, respect the Constitution, and engage in a credible political process that will culminate in the…

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Apr 4, 2017

If Russia has the influence in Syria that it claims to have, we need to see them use it.

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Mar 8, 2017

I will continue to push all U.N. countries to make sure that we are not doing these resolutions for the sake of doing these resolutions.

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Mar 8, 2017

I have to say, my biggest concern with Security Council resolutions is that not all countries follow them.

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Mar 8, 2017

I think that the administration very much wants to do all they can. They have made ISIS and terrorist groups a priority.

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Mar 8, 2017

And I think it is also making sure that we are doing what we can to take care of the people on the ground, knowing that our end goal should always be to lift up their government in a way that they can do for themselves.

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Mar 8, 2017

It is holding the governments accountable, because, as you know, in a lot of the governments where we have peacekeeping missions, they have actually been a hindrance and not a support to the peacekeeping process.

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Mar 8, 2017

It could be accountability of what is expected from the troops when it comes to sexual exploitation and corruption.

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Mar 8, 2017

Absolutely. And so what we are doing is we are putting in best practices with every single renewal that we have done.

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Mar 8, 2017

We have to keep development as part of the mix, along with the diplomacy and the military forces that we use, because it is all interconnected.

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Mar 8, 2017

There are troop-contributing countries that see this as a moneymaker, and they are not holding their end of the deal.

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Mar 8, 2017

We are actually looking at are they trained, are they equipped.

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Mar 8, 2017

I do think that the President's budget was helpful in putting countries on notice and putting the U.N. on notice.

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Mar 8, 2017

I think it would be beneficial to the peace process, as well as just true to who we are, that we somehow always leverage the UNRWA donations that we give with the fact that they are still continuing martyr payments.

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Mar 8, 2017

I want you to hold me accountable.

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