Posted on 11/17/2004 1:41:05 PM PST by RWR8189
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Below are a selection of her own comments on subjects as diverse as Baghdad and Brahms.
It's just nonsense to say that because we've confronted it [the terrorist threat], we've created more of it. Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?
October 2004
There will always be some uncertainty about how quickly [Saddam Hussein] can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
September 2002
Responding to a UN security council meeting, in which most members spoke in favour of allowing more time for UN inspectors to search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.
We do need to remind everybody that tyrants don't respond to any kind of appeasement. Tyrants don't respond to negotiation. Tyrants respond to toughness. And that was true in the 1930s and 1940s when we failed to respond to tyranny, and it is true today.
February 2003
On criticism that senior Bush officials overstated the Iraq WMD threat
The truth of the matter is that repeated directors of central intelligence, repeated reports by intelligence agencies around the world, repeated reports by United Nations inspectors asking hard questions of Saddam Hussein, and tremendous efforts by this regime to conceal and hide what it was doing, clearly give a picture of a regime that had weapons of mass destruction and was determined to conceal them.
June 2003
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality. And we must work with others to create a world where terror is shunned and hope is the provenance of every living human. That is the security challenge, and moral mission, of our time.
August 2003
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.
April 2004
Power matters. But there can be no absence of moral content in American foreign policy, and furthermore, the American people wouldn't accept such an absence. Europeans giggle at this and say we're naive and so on, but we're not Europeans, we're Americans - and we have different principles.
February 2003
Ms Rice has said that her dream job is commissioner of the National Football League.
I think it would be a very interesting job because I actually think football, with all due respect to baseball, is a kind of national pastime that brings people together across social lines, across racial lines. And I think it's an important American institution.
On the similarities between football and war
I really consider myself a student of the game. I find the strategy and tactics absolutely fascinating. I find the evolution of the game really interesting. Again, as it relates to military history. Military history has swung back and forth between advantage to the offence and advantage to the defence. When the offence has the advantage, then a new technology will come along that will temporarily give the defence the advantage and vice versa. Football has that kind of pattern, too.
After a brief flirtation with the Democratic party Ms Rice became a Republican.
I found a party that sees me as an individual, not as part of a group... In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you come from - it matters where you are going.
Birmingham [Alabama] was odd. It was completely segregated. But the black community built its own world. I went to ballet classes and took French lessons and etiquette classes. My father had a picture of me when I was about four sitting on Santa Claus's lap and I have this really odd look on my face, and I wonder if that's because I'd never been that close to a white person before.
I was going to be so well prepared. And I was going to do all of these things that were revered in white society so well, that I would be armoured somehow from racism. I would be able to confront white society on its own terms. My family is third- generation college-educated. I should've gotten to where I am.
In between tennis games and going out on the boat we would have conversations about what foreign policy challenges would face the next president
I love Brahms because Brahms is actually structured. And he's passionate without being sentimental. I don't like sentimental music, so I tend not to like Liszt, and I don't actually much care for the Russian romantics Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, where it's all on the sleeve. With Brahms it's restrained, and there's a sense of tension that never resolves.
...for your reading.
Condi for President!
She can play at her own inaguration ball.
"I was going to be so well prepared. And I was going to do all of these things that were revered in white society so well, that I would be armoured somehow from racism. I would be able to confront white society on its own terms."
Wow! Could you imagine how much greater a society we would be if the other 89% of the black Kerry supporters shared this philosophy instead of playing the "victim?"
My already high level of respect for Condi went up another 350%.
I sleep better with her on our side.
I think Condi is an interesting though somewhat odd selection, she seems suited for higher places. The visibility here though may be just what she needs. Isn't it amazing the tirade thrown from the Lefties against a woman of any color achieving success in a Republican administration. Go girl!
A woman who loves football and military history AND has a PHD....... if i was a few years older
Condi ping
The Beeb actually selected some darn good quotes here.
The Democrats should be looking in the mirror today and seeing Condi Rice, but instead they see Helen Thomas and Hillary Clinton.
No wonder they're suicidal.
She is a super-star...and tough, and highly accomplished, and is an American patriot. And the far-left libs are having a s&^%-fit over those facts. She flies in the face of all the liberal detractors, including the DISGUSTING ELITIST MSM, with the ultra-RACIST portrayals of her in todays' Pravda....
So to redefine HYPOCRISY... where are the Jesse Jacksons, the NAACP, where is Obama, where is Al Sharpton and all the other so-called black leaders??? Where is their outrage at what the MSM is doing to her??? My bet is THERE WILL NOT BE A PEEP OUT OF THESE CRIMINAL RACISTS, who are so afraid of the liberal Dems, they will trash Condi Rice and what little, if any, credibility they had left....
I personally would be embarrassed to call myself a black democrat....
She spoke at my school back in September and I really REALLY wish I could have met her and chatted for a while.
Condi gets ready to join the Pantheon. Something tells me SecState is not necessarily going to be the high point of her career.
Man... if I weren't already married...
I would be a 28 year old looking for a 'Graduate' experience.
Then why is the left trying to portray her as some kind of pickeninny (sp?)?
Could they be <GASP> racist?
Shalom.
Condi Bump!!!
Does anyone know how to email Dr. Rice to offer congratulations?
Thanks
Thanks. bump!
I loved the end of her paragraph that you left out:
"My family is third- generation college-educated. I should've gotten to where I am."
Way to go, Condi!
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