520 Quotes by Condoleezza Rice

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.

We’re in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person’s God-given potential.

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.

I’m saying there is no way that I will do this, because it’s really not me. I know my strengths, and governor Romney needs to find someone who wants to run with him. There are many people who will do it very, very well, and I’ll support the ticket.

Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

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.

I would rather be ignored than patronized.

Today’s headlines and history’s judgement are not the same.