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
Susan Rice quotes about
Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.
I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.
The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.
Iran's arms exports to the murderous Assad regime in Syria are of particular concern. As the Panel of Experts has concluded, Syria is now the central party to illicit Iranian arms transfers.
Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.
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.
The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
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.
We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.
My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.