Condoleezza Rice

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing.

I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.

We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress.