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
What the United States has done hasn't always been liked or popular. But if you look at some of the most populous places in the world - China, India - the United States is not only respected but, in fact, popular.
I certainly think that the world views the United States as a place to be respected. All over the world our values are respected; who we are, a place that you can come and come from modest circumstances to great things, that's respected.
I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.
I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon.
There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.
We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.
Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be
In hindsight, if anything might have helped stop 9/11, it would have been better information about threats inside the United States.
The administration looks constantly at the threat level, ... Late Edition.
They will talk about issues concerning the continued march of democracy in Europe and also in Russia,
I hope that will remind Americans that we are all part of the same community,
impeccable on civil rights, impeccable on the interests of African-Americans, and I'm quite comfortable with his decision.
a pioneer in the civil rights movement who one day was just sick and tired of being sick and tired, and refused to give up her seat and inspired a whole generation of people to fight for freedom.
The world has to pull together and send a very strong message to the Iraqis.