Authors:

Condoleezza Rice Quotes - Page 12

All Quotes Airplane Belief Challenges Children College Community Compassion Country Culture Democracy Diplomacy Doubt Earth Effort Fighting Foreign Policy Giving Golf Growing Up Hard Work Identity Leadership Liberty Military Opportunity Overcoming Racism Responsibility Running School Security Sports Struggle Students Talent Technology Terrorism Today Values Waiting War Worry Writing
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.

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.

Condoleezza Rice
Hands, Play, Iraq

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

We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated; but overwhelmingly American forces there, putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis, helping to liberate them, that is appreciated by the Iraqi people and by the Prime Minister.

Condoleezza Rice
People, Lines, Helping
"Transcript: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. June 05, 2006.

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

Condoleezza Rice
Strong, Years, Anchors

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
Running, Government, People

I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

Condoleezza Rice
Airplane, Thinking, Trying
"Collective amnesia: Matthews, Klein and Sullivan gush over Rice, forgetting history of misleading and false statements" by Rob Morlino, www.mediamatters.org. June 26, 2006.

I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with minimal help, that we are going to be able to bring down the levels of our forces. And I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.

Condoleezza Rice
Doubt, Get Better, Levels
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing On U.S Foreign Policy in Iraq, October 19, 2005.

What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

Condoleezza Rice
Athlete, College, Order

Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us, in the administration, that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to.

Condoleezza Rice
War, Moving, Opportunity
"The Wolf Blitzer Reports Show", www.cnn.com. March 22, 2004.

When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.

Condoleezza Rice
Evil People, Want, Excuse
"PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, July 28, 2005.

I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an adult sport I took up tennis and played that quite seriously from the time I was about 18.

Condoleezza Rice
Sports, Athlete, Tennis

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.

I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.

Condoleezza Rice
Marriage, Girl, Growing Up

Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.

Condoleezza Rice
New York, Airplane, Thinking
CBS News, November 28, 2003.

In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was probably a reasonable thing to do.

Condoleezza Rice
Light, Years, Europe
TIME Magazine, October 2002.

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

Condoleezza Rice
War, Support, Balance
"Condoleezza Rice RNC speech". RNC 2012: Condoleezza Rice delivers speech to Republican National Convention in Tampa, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

You May Also Like: