Susan Rice famous quotes

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.
-- Susan Rice

#Opportunity #Agency #Risk

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

#Voice #Action #Silent

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

#Change #Progress #Want

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

#Men #Over You #Suits

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.
-- Susan Rice

#Democracy #Prevention #Facts

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

#Reality #Ukraine #Europe

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. That sparked violence in various parts of the world, including violence directed against Western facilities including our embassies and consulates.
-- Susan Rice

#Government #People #Video

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.
-- Susan Rice

#Rights #People #Political

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

#Country #Regret #Israel

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

#Benghazi #Libya #Streets

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

#Party #Israel #Iran

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

#Democracy #Jazz #Structure

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

#Israel #Als #Responsible

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

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

#Thinking #Controversy #Time To Think

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.
-- Susan Rice

#Thinking #People #Expectations

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

#Luxury #Risk #Suffering

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.
-- Susan Rice

#Self #Practice #Funding

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

#World #United States #Trusted

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

#Focus #Soul #Your Soul

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.
-- Susan Rice

#Nuclear #Weapons #United States

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

#May #Action #Consideration

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

#United States #Share #States

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

#Israel #Stronger #Defense

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

#Iran #Years #Oil

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

#Black #Female

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

#Nuclear #Harm #Planets

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

#Home #World #Hungry

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

#Thinking #Periods #Judged

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

#Korea #Risk #Weapons

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

#Jobs #Past #Opportunity

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

#Business #Years #People

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

#Example #South Africa #Investors

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

#Country #United States #United Nations

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.
-- Susan Rice

#White #Guy #Facts

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

#Believe #Years #Burden

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

#Jobs #Kids #Needs

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

#Luxury #Europe #Age

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

#Team #Player #Elbows