520 Quotes by Condoleezza Rice

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.

When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

If it is not possible for me to go somewhere and to be willing to encounter people with different views, then I'm really not doing my job.

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.

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they need to be answered.

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.

The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it - really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn't have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it?

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.