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

- Susan Rice

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

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

With me, what you see is what you get.

- Susan Rice

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

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

- Susan Rice

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

- Susan Rice

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

- Susan Rice

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

- Susan Rice

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

- Susan Rice

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

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

- Susan Rice

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

- Susan Rice

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

- Susan Rice

Our bottom line, if you want to call it a red line, president's bottom line has been that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon and we will take no option off the table to ensure that it does not acquire a nuclear weapon, including the military option.

- Susan Rice

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

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

My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

- Susan Rice

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

- Susan Rice

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