Condoleezza Rice Quotes About Security

Quotes about: Security

• I worry that the weakness - particularly of our public schools - is going to make that less and less true for everybody. And if we ever lose that as our core, then we're going to lose our confidence. We're not going to lead. We're going to protect. We're going to turn inward. That would be very bad for the world. So as a former Secretary of State, I think I can advocate for education as a national security priority.

  Condoleezza Rice

  School, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• 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.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Years, Hussein

• it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Principles, Sitting, Congress

  "Rice Leads Counterattack". "60 minutes", www.cbsnews.com. March 28, 2004.

• Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Homeland Security, Needed, Department

  "Qatar offers $100m to relief fund". www.cnn.com. September 4, 2005.

• American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal. As you are in this job and in the work, you begin to see, though, that in the long run, both American economic interests and American national security are better served when there are other decent countries in the world who are both your allies and even when your adversaries are acting more decently.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Running, Country, Long

  Interview with Rachel Martin, nprillinois.org. May 8, 2017.

• 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.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Doubt, United States, Helping

• Ultimately, we didn't go to Germany to create a democracy. We went to overthrow Adolf Hitler. But once a democracy was there, Germany was a much bigger supporter of and help to our national interests, both economic and security than had ever been before.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Democracy, Helping, Economic

  "Condoleezza Rice Reflects On The State Of Democracy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 8, 2017.

• I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Lying, Thinking

• NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Nato, Security, Values

  Source: www.npr.org

• We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Winning, Winner

  Opening Statement to the 9/11 Commission, delivered 8 April 2004, Washington, D.C.

• When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Iran, Effort, Nuclear

• I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with minimal help, that we are going to be able to bring down the levels of our forces. And I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Doubt, Get Better, Levels

  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing On U.S Foreign Policy in Iraq, October 19, 2005.

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