Condoleezza Rice

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

— Condoleezza Rice

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

— Condoleezza Rice

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

— Condoleezza Rice

My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— Condoleezza Rice

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.

— Condoleezza Rice

There is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.

— Condoleezza Rice

What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be…

— Condoleezza Rice

What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you're going. Our…

— Condoleezza Rice

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will…

— Condoleezza Rice

We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has…

— Condoleezza Rice

I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant…

— Condoleezza Rice

No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president…

— Condoleezza Rice

Your friends and your family, if you're close to them, they won't let you get too far from who you were or…

— Condoleezza Rice

America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've…

— Condoleezza Rice

America is a country that went through an extremely difficult set of circumstances out of 9/11. And we've survived it as a…

— Condoleezza Rice

I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on display. I…

— Condoleezza Rice

I feel that we're dividing along class lines for the first time in our history. Now one thing that has happened in…

— Condoleezza Rice

Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors…

— Condoleezza Rice

I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely…

— Condoleezza Rice

One of the signs that things are going reasonably well for democracy is that we have the states where they're closer to…

— Condoleezza Rice

I'm very proud that President [George W.] Bush took on AIDS relief. It was the largest single response by any country to…

— Condoleezza Rice

“But in the final analysis it doesn’t matter whether they were Christian believers, Deists, or atheists: Their intention was to create a…

— Condoleezza Rice

I think golf can be one of those places where we act and we hope that people act as we would like…

— Condoleezza Rice

Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I…

— Condoleezza Rice

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

— Condoleezza Rice

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— Condoleezza Rice

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

— Condoleezza Rice

The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.

— Condoleezza Rice

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

— Condoleezza Rice

America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

— Condoleezza Rice

Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.

— Condoleezza Rice

If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step…

— Condoleezza Rice

If a North Korean ballistic missile can reach Alaska, it can reach Vladivostok.

— Condoleezza Rice

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

— Condoleezza Rice

At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

— Condoleezza Rice

I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— Condoleezza Rice