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
Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people look at some of the work that's been done by people who have been there. But that's not to say that we will not be very glad at the day that conditions permit the closure of Guantanamo and the trying of its inhabitants or for their release.
It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.
But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.
I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.
I may not agree with everything, but our President, just like President [George W.] Bush did, is trying to do his best under difficult circumstances.
My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.
Charles Taylor is out of Liberia , he is through raping and pillaging his country and the Liberian people are trying to look forward. I really think we owe it to them to look forward and not back.
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.