Tag: Condoleezza Rice
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I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center – and then a second one – and a third, the Pentagon.
Condoleezza Rice
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When I talk to students – and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on leave – they say, ‘Well, how do I get to do what you do?’… And I say, ‘Well, you have to start out by being a failed piano major.’ And my point to them is don’t try to have a 10-year plan. Find the next thing that interests you and follow that.
Condoleezza Rice
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Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq’s people and neighbors.
Condoleezza Rice
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But the truth of the matter is, we’re an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That’s why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.
Condoleezza Rice
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We can’t afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.
Condoleezza Rice
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I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they need to be answered.
Condoleezza Rice
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Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college – and I still do.
Condoleezza Rice
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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.
Condoleezza Rice
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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.
Condoleezza Rice
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That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate – that was the one cardinal sin in our community.
Condoleezza Rice