I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I think it goes back to whether or not race and class - that is, race and poverty - is not becoming… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Well, I didn't feel that I could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of it. I know that… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
When you’re young, your world is pretty limited. My parents, my family, my church dominated my world. And because Birmingham was so… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about my parents, who were both teachers. I had known that my parents were very strongly in favor… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I believe that Reverend [Florine] Thompson's hit on something. My parents, I and a lot of my friends growing up in that… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
We can't live true to our set of values unless American educational system is strong. I really believe that if we don't get that… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I remember at the time of 9/11 that there were women who went out of their way to escort Muslim women to grocery stores… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
A lot is being done to bring additional protective measures, particularly the critical infrastructure locations around the United States, ... There is a very… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I'm not personally fearful, but I look out, and there are a number of things that concern me, and I'm hopeful that we can… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
[I'm] very fortunate and blessed person who still has a lot of living to do. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image