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 parties have now had the habit of cooperation in the Gaza withdrawal, and it is our hope that they are going to continue to build on that.
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 believe they are going to finish this, ... We are confident that they will complete this process and continue on the path toward elections for a permanent government at the end of the year.
The sole purpose of this trip is to express support for the Lebanese people and for the Lebanese government as they try to recover fully their sovereignty and they continue their efforts to reform.
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.
They will talk about issues concerning the continued march of democracy in Europe and also in Russia,
We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror.
I think we can't keep moving the bar for the Iraqis.
It goes without saying the United States believes that in order to be credible the UN Security Council has to act.
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
We do have to be vigilant and to demonstrate that we know the difficulties that that government is causing for its neighbors. Those relationships are deeply concerning to us and to me. And we are very concerned about a democratically elected leader who governs in an illiberal way.
We recognize any policy will sometimes result in errors, and when it happens, we will do everything we can to rectify it.
We really want to be ready to hit the ground running with this new government when it's ready to go.
Our task now is to build on the momentum of that withdrawal.