Susan Rice Quotes

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

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.

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.

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

Our bottom line, if you want to call it a red line, president's bottom line has been that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon and we will take no option off the table to ensure that it does not acquire a nuclear weapon, including the military option.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

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.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria.

I am a direct person.

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.

I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.