Susan Rice Quotes

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

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

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

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

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.

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

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

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

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

I was very happy in my job at the United Nations.

The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

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.

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.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.

President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.

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

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

Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.

I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.

I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do.

All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.

We can't let others judge information for us.

I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.

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.

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

I don't have time to think about the false controversy.

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

We should learn to tolerate nuclear weapons of North Korea just like we did the Soviet Union.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.

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

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

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

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.

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

Iran's arms exports to the murderous Assad regime in Syria are of particular concern. As the Panel of Experts has concluded, Syria is now the central party to illicit Iranian arms transfers.

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

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

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.

Be who you are. If you spend all of your time worrying about how people view you, you will not be either faithful to yourself or effective in what you're trying to do.

You have to make change.

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.

What we have done is when the threat has been directed at the United States, i.e., the terrorist threat from ISIL or Al-Qaeda in Syria, is to go after them.

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.