People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights.
— Condoleezza Rice
I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.
My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.
I think it goes back to whether or not race and class - that is, race and poverty - is not becoming even more of a constraint. Because with the failing public schools, I worry that the way that my grandparents got out of poverty, the way that my parents became educated, is just not going to be there for a whole bunch of kids.
I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views.
I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.
People are tired of being kept from the dignity that allows them to make their own choices.
I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.
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.
Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.
I know a lot of very stable gay couples.
I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.
The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it - really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn't have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it?
When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.
I could read music before I could read.
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.
When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.
If it is not possible for me to go somewhere and to be willing to encounter people with different views, then I'm really not doing my job.
There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.
That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.
You go to war when there is a security threat, and Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to our interests and our security.
We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.
We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority.
I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they need to be answered.
When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing with, people want each other to do well.
I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that.
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.
My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.
I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11.
I'm not a politician.
The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.
What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you're going. Our job is to make certain the pathways are open to both our boys and our girls.
When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.
You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.
There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.
Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.
I am very fond of Jeb Bush. He's a friend; he was a terrific governor of Florida. I worked with him on some immigration and education issues.
We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace.
I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.
I think golf can be one of those places where we act and we hope that people act as we would like them to act all the time.
I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.
I have enormous respect for people who do run for office.
I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.
What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.
Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.
Football is like war. It's about taking territory.
I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on display. I said that the tallest doll needed to be on the end, and my little friend said to me, 'Oh, you're just so bossy.' I remember thinking that wasn't a good thing. But I kept insisting the doll had to be on the end anyway.
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.
