Susan E Rice Quotes & Sayings

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. — Susan Rice

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

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive. — Susan Rice

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. — Susan Rice

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

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

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. — Susan Rice

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

I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to. — Susan Rice

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. — Susan Rice

We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences. — Susan Rice

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. — Susan Rice

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. — Susan Rice

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. — Susan Rice

I am a direct person. — Susan Rice

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. — Susan Rice

There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world. — Susan Rice

Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women Samantha Power, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids. — Ilana Mercer

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

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

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

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

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

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 — Susan Rice

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

I don't have time to think about the false controversy, — Susan Rice

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

Vietnam is still, as it was thirty years ago, a poor country of rice paddy farms and sandy harbors, where fishermen cast nets from boats with eyes painted on the bows. It is overcrowded, prey to floods and sweatshops, dotted by modern cities and tiny hamlets of thatched huts with TV antennae. It is not a great capital of industry, or an international oil field or bread basket. There is nothing in Vietnam, now, that America truly needs. And there was even less thirty years ago. This country, these people, posed no real threat to us. It was a strange place to send our youth - not to learn a new culture or to enjoy the beaches, but to kill and be killed, to be maimed and to patch up the maimed. I am convinced that, to our government, Vietnam really, truly Didn't Mean Nothing. — Susan O'Neill

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

I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself of that opportunity. Greta, I just listened to the clip - I get tougher questions in the Bojangles drive-through than he asked her. — Trey Gowdy