Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza "Condi" Riceis an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush. Rice was the first female African-American Secretary of State, as well as the second African American secretary of state, and the second female secretary of state. Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 November 1954
CityBirmingham, MI
CountryUnited States of America
The world has to pull together and send a very strong message to the Iraqis.
The most important step is for all to act with a sense of calm, a sense of statesmanship, ... Violence will achieve nothing, and if all parties are committed to the creation of a calm environment ... that will be very good. That will be our message to all the responsible parties in the region.
I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely important that we get our message out, but it's also the case that we should not have a monologue with other people. It has to be a conversation, and you can't do that without exchanges and openness.
message and policy are very much a part, you know, two parts of the same coin.
I talked in the past to him and my message was it is his responsibility as president of Lebanon to be concerned by the sovereignty of Lebanon.
We've always said that we were not going to have a cookie-cutter approach,
We're going to get this done while I'm here.
Unless something is done very quickly... it becomes very difficult to see the transformation of Gaza into a peaceful and well-governed place,
Unfortunately, it came open at the wrong time. Obviously, I'm very busy as secretary of state, and I intend to continue to be secretary of state as long as the president of the United States will have me.
The potential marriage of weapons of mass destruction with terrorism is everyone's nightmare.
We share a concern about events on the Korean Peninsula,
We are very focused on hoping that these negotiations do succeed,
Our strategy is to hold, clear and build,
Our task now is to build on the momentum of that withdrawal.