Кондолиза Райс цитаты
Кондолиза Райс
Дата рождения: 14. Ноябрь 1954
Кондоли́за Райс — 66-й Государственный секретарь США , сменила на этом посту Колина Пауэлла. Райс — первая чернокожая и вторая женщина, после Мадлен Олбрайт, на этом посту. Советник президента США по национальной безопасности во время первого срока президентства Джорджа Буша . До прихода в команду Буша, с 1993 по 1999 год, — проректор Стэнфордского университета, профессор, доктор политологии.
При администрации Джорджа Буша , во время распада СССР и объединения Германии — советник президента по вопросам СССР и Восточной Европы.
Роль Райс как советника президента и главного оппонента резкой критики политики США в «войне с террором» признаётся спорной, однако в настоящее время[когда?] она имеет очень высокий рейтинг одобрения и доверия среди всех официальных лиц администрации США.
Цитаты Кондолиза Райс
„And so, by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Conventions Against Torture.“
— Condoleezza Rice
Context: In terms of the enhanced interrogation and so forth, anything that was legal and was going to make this country safer, the president wanted to do. Nothing that was illegal. And nothing that was going to make the country less safe. Unless you were there, in a position of responsibility after September 11th, you cannot possibly imagine the dilemmas that you faced in trying to protect Americans. You were determined to do anything that you could that was legal to prevent that from happening again... We were told, nothing that violates our obligations under the Convention Against Torture. And so, by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Conventions Against Torture.
Quoted in Glenn Kessler, [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/04/30/rice_defends_enhanced_interrog.html?hpid=news-col-blog "Rice Defends Enhanced Interrogations,"] Washington Post (2009-04-30).
„If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/24/se.22.html Interview by Wolf Blitzer on CNN], September 24, 2001.
„Now, six years ago, al-Qaeda was planning to attack the Twin Towers. It wasn't a very nice world. And I think that if you think about six years ago, al-Qaida was preparing to attack the Twin Towers, Pakistan was allied with the Taliban, Afghanistan was the base from which al-Qaida was going to operate; the Israelis and the Palestinians had given up on a chance for -- or let me put it, the Palestinians had walked away from a chance for a Palestinian state, launched the second intifada, elected Ariel Sharon who basically said there would never be a Palestinian state and there will be a greater Israel; the North Korean were cheating on a deal that they had just signed; China and others were indifferent to that because it was a U. S.-North Korea bilateral deal; Iran was cheating on the IAEA out of sight. I could go on and on and on. That was the world in 2000 and 2001. And there is no doubt that by confronting -- oh, by the way, and Saddam Hussein was shooting at our pilots regularly in the no-fly zone and making a mockery of the Oil-for-Peace -- Oil-for-Food program and corruption was running rampant in that program. So, a worse world? I think so.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2007/06/86248.htm Interview With the Associated Press Editorial Board], June 8, 2007.
„I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-03-30-questions-usat_x.htm Press conference], May 16, 2002.
„Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo. And so I would just suggest that people look at some of the work that's been done by people who have been there. But that's not to say that we will not be very glad at the day that conditions permit the closure of Guantanamo and the trying of its inhabitants or for their release.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://web.archive.org/web/20060405071024/http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/63980.htm Remarks With British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw At Blackburn Town Hall], April 1, 2006.
„This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2008/08/108194.htm Press briefing], August 13, 2008.
„And so the administration, I think, has said to the American people that it is a generational commitment to Iraq.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160008,00.html FOX News Sunday], June 19, 2005.
„This test has much in common with the other great challenges that are defining this young century -- from weapons proliferation, to the spread of disease, to transnational terrorism. These are truly global problems, and no one nation, no matter how much power or political will it possesses, can succeed alone. We all need partners, and we all need to work in concert.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2007/09/92893.htm US Department of State], September 28, 2007.
„... there have been plenty of markers that show that this is a country that is worth the investment because once it emerges as a country that is a stabilizing factor, you'll have a very different kind of Middle East. And I know that from the point of view of not just monetary costs, but the sacrifice of American lives, a lot has been sacrificed for Iraq, a lot has been invested in Iraq.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/78200.htm Interview by Anne Gearan of the Associated Press], December 21, 2006.
„My Fox guys, I love every single one of them.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://web.archive.org/web/20070111182154/http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/11/rice.reut/index.html Comments overheard on an open microphone between morning television interviews], January 11, 2007.
„The United States doesn't and can't condone torture. And I want to make very clear that that's the view and the policy of the administration, the policy of the president, and that he's made very clear to American personnel that we will not condone torture.... Senator, under no circumstances should we or have we condoned torture. And the president has been very clear that he expects everyone to live up to our international obligations and to American law.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/politics/18TEXT-RICE2.html?pagewanted=13&ei=5070&en=0134785e4e0eeadd&ex=1182225600 Secretary of State confirmation hearing], January 18, 2005.
„You are a good friend and we welcome you.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://web.archive.org/web/20060413191309/http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/64434.htm Remarks With Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogol April 12, 2006.
„Ron Paul: We are escalating our sharp rhetoric toward Iran, We're deploying additonal carrier group and Patriot missiles to the region. And, although Iran has [http://www. pbs. org/wgbh/pages/frontline/showdown/themes/grandbargain. html approached] the United States to establish serious dialog two times since 9/11, they have been rebuffed both times...
Condelezza Rice:... When we have a carrier strike group into the gulf, or provide PAC-3, which is a defensive system, it's simply to demonstrate that the United States remains determined to defend its interests in the gulf, and the interests of its allies. And that, congressman, is a position that has been held by American presidents going back for nearly 60 years. I would just note that these are discrete respones to Iranian activities that are really deeply concerning, not just for us, but for the rest of the world as well. Now as to Tehran, and whether we can talk to them. I offered in May to reverse 27 years of American policy, and to meet my counterpart any place, any time, to talk about any set of issues that Iran wishes to talk about, if they would just do one thing. And that is, adhere to the demand that the international community is making, that they stop enrichment and reprocessing, so that we that while we're talking, they're not improving their capability to get a nuclear weapon. So I think, congressman, the question isn't why won't we talk to Tehran, the question is why won't they talk to us.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYa9EFcvsrE State Department annual budget request, Foreign Affairs Committee], February 2, 2007.
„I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/26/113322/93 News conference in Ottawa, Canada], October 26, 2005.
„... those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism are actually causing extremism I find grotesque.“
— Condoleezza Rice
[http://web.archive.org/web/20060717235153/http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/69026.htm Interview on ABC This Week], July 16, 2006.
