Susan Rice Quotes

In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.

Political preemption in the form of democracy promotion will be as important as the capacity for military preemption.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

The American preoccupation with promoting democracy abroad fits into a larger liberal view about the sources of a stable, legitimate, secure, and prosperous international order.

In the wars of the European Powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so.

American interests dictate that we teach other peoples to govern themselves.

The concepts of "democracy promotion" and "transformational diplomacy" pursued by the George W. Bush Administration conditioned interstate relations on altering any system of government that did not match Washington's understanding of democracy.

What some people argue is that Vietnam stands for the proposition that there's no role for American power anywhere on earth. I don't believe that's the case at all. I think we're the strongest force for democracy and for stability on earth, and we must have a strong capacity to perform that role.

While American interests in the Middle East must obviously be protected, America's credibility to support democracy for everyone everywhere is crucial.

America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

I absolutely believe that America has a responsibility, and the privilege of helping defend freedom and promote the principles that make the world more peaceful. And those principles include human rights, human dignity, free enterprise, freedom of expression, elections.

We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.

It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.