Susan Rice
Susan Rice
Susan Elizabeth Riceis currently serving as the 24th United States National Security Advisor. She was formerly a U.S. diplomat, Brookings Institution fellow, and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She served on the staff of the National Security Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during President Bill Clinton's second term. She was confirmed as UN ambassador by the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent on January 22, 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth17 November 1964
CountryUnited States of America
Whatever happens (Monday), whether there is a signing, whether there is a partial signing of pieces of the agreement that the parties are prepared to put their names to at this point or whether there is no signing at all, we will be still experiencing tomorrow another step in the process,
That arc of conflict has created a sort of regional super failed-state that terrorists and criminals have used to base their operations and to exploit the very precious diamond resources there.
She'll have to show whether she has the stuff to stand up and fight.
In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.
If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.
What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.
The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.
As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.
We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.
There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.
Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.
Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.