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Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Community
#Me
#Possible
#Push
#Will
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Great
#Mom
#Poor
#Respect
#Teacher
I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'
- Condoleezza Rice
#Daughter
#Know
#Politicians
#Will
#Women
There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Debate
#Disaster
#Politics
#Power
#View
We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Information
#Intelligence
#Know
#Way
People are tired of being kept from the dignity that allows them to make their own choices.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Choices
#Dignity
#Own
#People
#Tired
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.
- Condoleezza Rice
#America
#Best
#Chance
#Peace
#Success
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
#American
#Leadership
#More
#Need
#World
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Back
#Clear
#Go
#Leadership
#Offer
Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Attack
#Intelligence
#Law
#Save
#Street
We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the face of the earth. That we would not use that moment to press for women's rights seems to me unthinkable.
- Condoleezza Rice
#American
#Face
#Me
#Moment
#Women
One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Education
#Opportunity
#Politics
#Time
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
#Every
#More
#Peace
#Security
#War
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
#Afghanistan
#Democracy
#Government
#Now
We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Act
#New
#Technology
#Terrorism
#Us
#World
My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Democrats
#Did
#Father
#Jim Crow
#Vote
The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Day
#Position
#Powerful
#Surprise
#Woman
I know a lot of very stable gay couples.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Gay
#Know
#Lot
#Stable
#Very
I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on display. I said that the tallest doll needed to be on the end, and my little friend said to me, 'Oh, you're just so bossy.' I remember thinking that wasn't a good thing. But I kept insisting the doll had to be on the end anyway.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Good
#Me
#Remember
#School
#Thinking
I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Bright
#Day
#Never Forget
#White
#World
Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Headlines
#History
#Judgment
#Rarely
#Same
#Today
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
#Desire
#Freedom
#Opportunity
#Reality
Football is like war. It's about taking territory.
- Condoleezza Rice
#About
#Football
#Like
#Territory
#War
The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Always
#Gun
#Smoking
#Uncertainty
#Will
We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Afford
#Afghanistan
#Leave
#Taliban
What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Cannot
#Know
#Today
#Tomorrow
#Yesterday
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
- Condoleezza Rice
#America
#Great Things
#Great
#Humble
#Religion
#Us
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
#Chance
#Country
#Father
#Person
#Time
We need a common enemy to unite us.
- Condoleezza Rice
#Common Enemy
#Common
#Enemy
#Need
#Us
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