520 Quotes by Condoleezza Rice

When people see the terrible scenes of violence on television, when we mourn the death of each and every American man and woman in uniform or a civilian that's killed, that it's hard to see the progress that's being made and it's hard to believe that this is all going to come out for the better.

Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race.

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

The notion somehow that we have tremendous tensions with our European allies I think are, frankly, just not right.

Search for role models you can look up to and people who take an interest in your career. But here's an important warning: you don't have to have mentors who look like you. Had I been waiting for a black, female Soviet specialist mentor, I would still be waiting. Most of my mentors have been old white men, because they were the ones who dominated my field.

If we get a referral (of Iran) on September 19th, that will be good, but I think the issue of a referral is something that we'll be working for a while,

The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

The northwest is very different from what I could have imagined.

I have every reason to believe that the British are right about this. I trust the British on this issue. The British are operating in the south, they know the situation there.