Condoleezza Rice State Quotations

I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

A lot is being done to bring additional protective measures, particularly the critical infrastructure locations around the United States, ... There is a very active ... program of coordination on this particular period of time with both public and private entities and at the federal, state and local levels.

Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

The PDB (Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.) does not say the United States is going to be attacked. It says Bin Laden would like to attack the United States. I don't think you, frankly, had to have that report to know that Bin Laden would like to attack the United States.

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.

I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State; it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor.

for the United States to protect democracy and build democracy.

This is not an issue of lecturing Russia, it is that the United States and Russia have a deep and broad relationship. We'd like it to get deeper and broader. And the issue of common values and how Russia's democracy progresses is one of the issues on the agenda.

conditions of failed states to create conditions in which there's so much instability that you begin to see greater sources of terrorism.

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.

a vicious act of terror, which the United States strongly condemns.

It goes without saying the United States believes that in order to be credible the UN Security Council has to act.

If we abandon future generations in the Middle East to despair and terror, we also condemn future generations in the United States to insecurity and fear.

The United States is not going to support any particular political candidate or any particular party or list.

The United States is committed to helping Iraq recover from the conflict, but Iraq will not require sustained aid.

The United States does have, in fact, productive relations with Russia.

I think that we will not get hung up on this statement (by Pyongyang), ... We will stick to the text of the Beijing (agreement) and I believe we can make progress if everybody sticks to what we agreed to.

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.

I do want to simply say to the Pakistani people and confirm with them that the international community and the United States and the people of the United States are with them in this terrible time,

The United States will actively confront the policies of this Iranian regime, and at the same time we are going to work to support the aspirations of the Iranian people for freedom in their own country.

The United States stands with the people and government of Indonesia as they work to bring to justice those responsible for these acts of terrorism, ... We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror.