I’m quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I’ve had my fill of politics. Condoleezza Rice Read Quote
Great powers can’t get tired, because the international order is not self-governing. Condoleezza Rice Read Quote
Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq’s people and neighbors. Condoleezza Rice Read Quote
There’s no doubt that it’s still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime. Condoleezza Rice Read Quote
There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it. Condoleezza Rice Read Quote
So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we’re vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn’t fully understand. Condoleezza Rice Read Quote
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. Condoleezza Rice Read Quote
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. Condoleezza Rice Read Quote
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. Condoleezza Rice Read Quote
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. Condoleezza Rice Read Quote