Condoleezza Rice Quotes

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.

I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog.

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.

People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I'm not that complicated. I'm pretty straightforward. And I'm not all that self-reflective, because I tend to be a doer.

I've never really been a workaholic. I work very hard, but I also enjoy playing. I think it's important to have a balanced and well-rounded life.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.

Message and policy are very much a part, you know, two parts of the same coin.

I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there's a relationship here

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if it were not slanted in ways that appear to be at times just purely inaccurate.

U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.

We need a common enemy to unite us.

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

First, I wanted to answer the question I'm most frequently asked: "How did you become who you are?" Well, you had to know John and Angelena Rice.

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant country in the world.

History's long arc is different than the today's headlines.

America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.

If a North Korean ballistic missile can reach Alaska, it can reach Vladivostok.

I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

Hillary Clinton is somebody of great intelligence. She is somebody who really loves this country, who speaks forcefully and well for American interests and values.