Condoleezza Rice Quotes

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Condoleezza Rice

Profession : Statesman

Birth : November 14, 1954

Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

Condoleezza Rice

When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing with, people want each other to do well.

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I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

Condoleezza Rice

We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace.

Condoleezza Rice

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.

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I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that.

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You go to war when there is a security threat, and Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to our interests and our security.

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I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11.

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I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

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We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.

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Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization - listed by Europeans as a terrorist organization.

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I don't see myself in any way in elective office.

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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.

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You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.

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We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror.

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My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.

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I think golf can be one of those places where we act and we hope that people act as we would like them to act all the time.

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What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.

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I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.

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I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.

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