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
reminds us of the serious continuing threat we face, and that we are not as safe as we could or should be.
When you look at a secretary of defense who has been as forceful and effective as Donald Rumsfeld, for good or for ill, he's a tough customer,
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.
My hunch is, we're watching a bureaucratic slow-roll take place, but the danger is it's happening as the situation on the ground is getting worse. The administration has been in this knot of having called the situation genocide but then failing to do anything.
With me, what you see is what you get.
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.
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,
He is focused; he is totally focused on this preparation and on this debate, ... It is an opportunity for the American people to see that he is a strong, smart, tough leader.
We hope this is a break in this case,
We have come a very long way in a very short period of time,
Our bottom line, if you want to call it a red line, president's bottom line has been that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon and we will take no option off the table to ensure that it does not acquire a nuclear weapon, including the military option.
My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.
We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.
In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.