We can’t rely – or no country can rely on just a single personality to carry it forward. And so what the American founding fathers understood was that institutions were built for human imperfection not human perfection.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEThe quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.
More Condoleezza Rice Quotes
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You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you’re going to get a good education, we’ve got a real problem.
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If you cannot allow people to do their jobs, nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
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So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we’re vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn’t fully understand.
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The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
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There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That’s what I love doing.
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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.
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This is the democratic process at work, What you’re seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
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Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
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Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.
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We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
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As secretary of state it’s been an enormous honor to represent this great country that I love so much – I have really seen that our great strengths are in the ability of people to reach their potential here.
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People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they’ll join your side.
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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.
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Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it’s about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations.
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