What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday. Condoleezza Rice More Quotes by Condoleezza Rice More Quotes From Condoleezza Rice I really do fervently believe that every child deserves to have the kind of access to educational opportunities, broadly defined, including music and sports, that I enjoyed. So, I'm trying to do my part, and I believe that all of us with a privileged background who are fortunate enough to have had that kind of access have a responsibility to try to pass it on. Condoleezza Rice educationalsportschildren 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 united-statesdoubthelping I believe in having a private life. Condoleezza Rice i-believe-ini-believebelieve I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor. Condoleezza Rice anchorsstrongyears What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices. Condoleezza Rice athletecollegeorder I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an adult sport I took up tennis and played that quite seriously from the time I was about 18. Condoleezza Rice tennisathletesports It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known. Condoleezza Rice writingfunpeople If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my personal life, health crises, or the deaths of my parents, because there can too easily be a perception of me that my life just went from A to Z uninterrupted, without any ups and downs, and that's not a fair representation. Condoleezza Rice parentstrugglebook Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost. Condoleezza Rice good-personmatterfacts The PDB (Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.) does not say the United States is going to be attacked. It says Bin Laden would like to attack the United States. I don't think you, frankly, had to have that report to know that Bin Laden would like to attack the United States. Condoleezza Rice united-statesdoethinking We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. Condoleezza Rice gunstupidwar What we're hearing from everyone is that they understand that Saddam Hussein is a threat. They understand that he's been a threat for a long time. Condoleezza Rice hearinghusseinlong I think all of us have really got to redouble our efforts, first of all, to pay attention to the K-12 crisis. The sad fact is that I can look at your zip code and tell whether you're going to get a good education. That's not fair. And secondly, I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve. Condoleezza Rice meankidsthinking Well, I didn't feel that I could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they did to make it possible for me to be who I am, if I sort of just put it at the beginning of a book about my last eight years in foreign policy. Condoleezza Rice eightwho-i-ambook Well, of course, all of the statistics say there are fewer eligible black men in my circle. But I've never thought of it that way. I believe that if the right person came into my life that would have been terrific. Condoleezza Rice circlesmenbelieve It hasn't yet materialized that I went into sports management, but I haven't ruled it out yet, either. I only half-jokingly remarked that I'd love to be the commissioner of the NFL. But as I recently told current Commissioner Roger Goodell, that job looked a lot more appealing when I was struggling with the Russians and the Iranians everyday. Condoleezza Rice strugglejobssports For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither. Condoleezza Rice democracycountryyears Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people. Condoleezza Rice governmentrunningpeople I believe that Reverend [Florine] Thompson's hit on something. My parents, I and a lot of my friends growing up in that community had tremendous drive. Condoleezza Rice growing-upcommunitybelieve I think it's very humble to believe that there is no man, woman or child who should live in tyranny. That people who say, well, maybe Arabs just aren't ready for democracy or maybe Africans just are going to have corrupt governments, that seems to me arrogant. Condoleezza Rice humblebelievechildren
