520 Quotes by Condoleezza Rice

to lead the region in promoting democracy, as it has done in pursuit of peace.

Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.

tremendous opportunity to achieve real security and lasting democracy and true reconciliation in the Balkans.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

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.

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies- or to help the world's most desperate - the AIDS orphan in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia; the world's poorest in Haiti. Yet this assistance - together with the compassionate works of private charities - people of conscience and people of faith - has shown the soul of our country.

We have affirmed our just demands of the Syrian government and made it clear that failure with these demands will lead to serious consequences from the international community,