Susan Rice Quotes
Our democracy has been going for over 235 years and it has not always been as dysfunctional as it is today.
Susan Rice, National Security Advisor (Democrat), U. S. Representative to the United Nations, Interview with Judy Woodruff, National Security, Women’s Foreign Policy Group, May 14, 2014
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The historian was comparing Obama to other historical presidents who either had a majority of both Houses of Congress or had an opposition party that was generally quite cooperative and willing to compromise for the sake of running the country smoothly. At this point in time there was a Tea Party wing of the Republican that was particularly negative and obstructionist. They tended to threaten and intimidate the main stream Republicans who used the filibuster to block legislation the majority of Senators had voted for more times than all the other Congresses in American history. And that was only in Obamas first 6 years.
She was one of the very few remaining bi Partisan Republicans. There had been a de facto purge of liberal Republicans from the party.
Susan Elizabeth Rice is an American diplomat, policy advisor, and public official serving as Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Rice served as the 27th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013 and as the 24th U.S. national security advisor from 2013 to 2017.
