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" Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do. "

Condoleezza Rice

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" I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that. "

Condoleezza Rice

" I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough. "

Condoleezza Rice

" People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorblind or gender-blind in this country, so I'm not suggesting that it isn't a factor. But I think in the final analysis, people will take a look at the positions, and they'll take a look at the issues. "

Condoleezza Rice

" 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

" Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea? "

Condoleezza Rice

" Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections. "

Condoleezza Rice

" The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. "

Condoleezza Rice

" 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

" 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

" We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the face of the earth. That we would not use that moment to press for women's rights seems to me unthinkable. "

Condoleezza Rice

" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "

Condoleezza Rice

" 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

" I could read music before I could read. "

Condoleezza Rice

" We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. "

Condoleezza Rice

" I'm not a politician. "

Condoleezza Rice

" 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. "

Condoleezza Rice

" The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom. "

Condoleezza Rice

" I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism. "

Condoleezza Rice

" So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand. "

Condoleezza Rice

" 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

" We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror. "

Condoleezza Rice

" We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace. "

Condoleezza Rice

" What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us. "

Condoleezza Rice

" After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. "

Condoleezza Rice

" My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him. "

Condoleezza Rice

" I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11. "

Condoleezza Rice

" The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position. "

Condoleezza Rice

" Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives. "

Condoleezza Rice

" We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress. "

Condoleezza Rice

" I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on display. I said that the tallest doll needed to be on the end, and my little friend said to me, 'Oh, you're just so bossy.' I remember thinking that wasn't a good thing. But I kept insisting the doll had to be on the end anyway. "

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