Condoleezza Rice Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Everywhere that I go in the world, people desperately look to American leadership in all of their world's most difficult problems. You can look at any region of the world and the United States is still the country to which those regions look for leadership.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, People, United States

  Source: www.cnbc.com

• But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Military, Doe

  "CNN Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, July 29, 2001.

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

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Mean, Circles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal. As you are in this job and in the work, you begin to see, though, that in the long run, both American economic interests and American national security are better served when there are other decent countries in the world who are both your allies and even when your adversaries are acting more decently.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Running, Country, Long

  Interview with Rachel Martin, nprillinois.org. May 8, 2017.

• You are American, whether you profess Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, whether you adhere to Islam, or whether you believe in nothing at all. And you're as American as anybody else, whatever your religious beliefs. But try not to get caught up in media stereotypes of your neighbors and of your country. Think about people that you know and how they treat you. As you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have, or what their nationality is, or where they came from. And I think that's how Americans really do relate to each other on a personal level.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Religious, Believe

• I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Father, Thinking

  "Rice speech sparks 2016 speculation" by Kevin Cirilli, Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

• As secretary of state it's been an enormous honor to represent this great country that I love so much - I have really seen that our great strengths are in the ability of people to reach their potential here.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, People, Honor

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• We can't rely - or no country can rely on just a single personality to carry it forward. And so what the American founding fathers understood was that institutions were built for human imperfection not human perfection.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Personality, Single Person

  "Society's Moral Fracturing Leads To Dangerous Places". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 16, 2017.

• I believed Afghanistan was always going to be hard. It's the fifth poorest country in the world. And when you fly over it, you realize that there's not much there. And, of course, it has the problem, too, of being on that border with Pakistan in basically an ungoverned region that has given the terrorists a staging ground. So it's a very difficult place. But I do believe that the mission there can succeed if success is defined as helping the Afghans to prevent the Taliban from being an existential threat to the Afghan government.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Believe, World

• I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Lying, Thinking

• I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about our country that we had back-to-back African-American Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and then me. I also thought it said a lot about President Bush that he didn't see limits on the highest ranking diplomat in terms of color. It's a hard job, but really the best one in government.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Jobs, Grateful

  Source: aalbc.com

• We've organized human potential and have been better at using human potential better than any country on the face of the Earth. That's because we've recognized that our national creed, our national identity, is that it doesn't matter where you're from, it matters where you're going. You can come from hard circumstances and do great things. We've got to make that true for a whole variety of people who no longer feel that.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, People, Identity

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia. It has been hard, yet this assistance together with the compassionate work of private charities, people of conscience and people of faith, has shown the soul of our country.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Sex, Zimbabwe

  Condoleezza Rice's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

• Well, there are many things, whenever you look back, that you would've done differently. We're all human. We do our best at the time. I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country. We came close, but we couldn't.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Wish, Immigration

  Source: aalbc.com

• 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.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Speak, Clinton

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• There have been plenty of markers that show that this [Iraq] is a country that is worth the investment, because once it emerges as a country that is a stabilising factor, you will have a very different kind of Middle East.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Iraq, Middle East

• I get letters from kids from all over the country. I always try to answer them because there were people I looked up to in my youth and just wanted to be in contact with. It's also important to realize that you find your role models in a lot of different places. I've never believed that your role models have to look like you. You can find them in all sort of colors, shapes and sizes.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Kids, Color

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• You know, as Secretary of State, I've been privileged to represent this great country, and I know its strengths, and I know its challenges. One of its strengths is the belief - here and abroad - that this is a place where you get ahead on merit. It doesn't matter where you came from; it matters where you're going.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Challenges, Belief

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, President, Development

  "Israeli-Palestinian Talks Could Be Delayed". Interview with Alison Stewart, Luke Burbank, www.npr.org. October 15, 2007.

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

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Wish, Immigration

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• 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.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Believe, Thinking

• We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Ocean, Two

• I don't know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai, for his strength, for his wisdom and for his courage to lead this country first in the defeat of the Taliban and now in rebuilding a democratic and unified Afghanistan. And I can tell you I am with foreign ministers and with heads of state all over the world. I sit in the councils of NATO. I sit with the EU. I sit with people all over the world and there is great admiration for your president and also for what the Afghan people are doing here.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, People, Community

  Remarks With Afghan President Hamid Karzai After Their Meeting, 2001-2009.state.gov. June 28, 2006.

• I'm very proud that President [George W.] Bush took on AIDS relief. It was the largest single response by any country to a major international health crisis, and there are millions of people who are alive today in Africa and other developing countries because of that program.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, People, President

• I remember at the time of 9/11 that there were women who went out of their way to escort Muslim women to grocery stores because they wanted to be sure that they didn't experience any prejudice. And so I'm not one who believes that America is a country that's intolerant. It's the most tolerant country in the world, and I really think that it's unfortunate that a number of people are trying to paint America with this brush. I just don't see it.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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