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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
What the Secretary Has Been Saying
2008
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2008 Secretary Rice's Remarks

September
--09/17/08  Attack on Embassy Sana’a; Washington, DC
--09/15/08  Remarks at Aspen Institute National Education Summit; Aspen Institute National Education Summit; Washington, DC
--09/15/08  Remarks with Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor; Washington, DC
--09/09/08  Remarks at the Annual State Department Iftaar Dinner; Benjamin Franklin Room; Washington, DC
--09/08/08  Remarks at the Annual Conference of the White House Initiative on National Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Hyatt Regency Washington; Washington, DC
--09/08/08  Statement on U.S.-Russia 123 Agreement; Washington, DC
--09/07/08  Remarks with Moroccan Foreign Minister Fassi Fihri ; Foreign Ministry; Rabat, Morocco
--09/06/08  Interview With Zain Verjee of CNN; Tripoli, Libya
--09/06/08  Remarks En Route to Algiers, Algeria; Algiers, Algeria
--09/06/08  Remarks after Meeting with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika; Algiers, Algeria
--09/06/08  Remarks after Meeting with Tunisian President Ben Ali; Tunis, Tunisia
--09/06/08  Roundtable with Travel Press; Ambassador's Residence; Algiers, Algeria
--09/05/08  Interview With Erin Burnett of CNBC; Tripoli, Libya
--09/05/08  Remarks En Route Tripoli, Libya with Traveling Press; En Route Tripoli, Libya
--09/05/08  Remarks With Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado; Foreign Ministry; Lisbon, Portugal
--09/05/08  Remarks with Foreign Minister Abdulrahman Muhammad Shalgam of Libya; Tripoli, Libya
--09/03/08  Remarks On U.S. Economic Support Package for Georgia; Treaty Room; Washington, DC

August
--08/26/08  Remarks With Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; Inbal Hotel; Jerusalem
--08/26/08  Remarks With Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas; Ramallah
--08/25/08  Remarks En Route Tel Aviv, Israel; En Route Tel Aviv, Israel 
--08/21/08  Remarks With Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari; Baghdad, Iraq
--08/20/08  Interview With Zain Verjee of CNN; Sheraton Hotel; Warsaw, Poland
--08/20/08  Remarks With Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Rood; Warsaw, Poland 
--08/20/08  Remarks With Polish President Lech Kaczynski; Presidential Palace; Warsaw, Poland
--08/20/08  Remarks at the Prime Ministry of Poland; Warsaw, Poland
--08/19/08  Interview With Kim Ghattas of BBC; Brussels, Belgium
--08/19/08  Interview With Lara Logan of CBS News; Brussels, Belgium
--08/19/08  Passing of Zambian President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa; Washington, DC
--08/19/08  Remarks After the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the Level of Foreign Ministers; NATO Headquarters; Brussels, Belgium
--08/18/08  Pakistan: Resignation of President Pervez Musharraf; Washington, DC 
--08/18/08  Remarks En Route to Brussels, Belgium; En Route to Brussels, Belgium
--08/17/08  Interview on CBS's Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer; Crawford, Texas
--08/17/08  Interview on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace; Crawford, Texas
--08/17/08  Interview on NBC's Meet the Press with David Gregory; Crawford, Texas
--08/16/08  Remarks by Secretary Rice to the White House Travel Pool ; Prairie Chapel Ranch; Crawford, Texas 
--08/15/08  Remarks with Georgian Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili; Tbilisi International Airport; Tbilisi, Georgia
--08/15/08  Remarks with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili; Tbilisi, Georgia
--08/14/08  Remarks With French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the Situation in Georgia; Le Fort de Bregancon, France
--08/13/08  Events in Georgia; Washington, DC
--08/12/08  Interview on the Situation in Georgia With Charles Gibson of ABC News ; Washington, DC
--08/12/08  Situation in Georgia ; Stakeout at the White House; Washington, DC
--08/08/08  Russia Move into Georgia; Washington, DC
--08/07/08  Interview With Matthew Swibel of Forbes Magazine; Washington, DC
--08/07/08  Remarks at the Tenth Anniversary Commemoration of the Bombings of U.S. Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam; Dean Acheson Auditorium; Washington, DC
--08/06/08  Interview With Mike Allen of The Politico and Yahoo! News; Washington, DC
--08/06/08  Mauritania: Military Coup; Washington, DC
--08/04/08  Death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Washington, DC
--08/02/08  Remarks With Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson; Aspen, Colorado
--08/02/08  Interview With Jenna Wolfe of the Sunday Edition of NBC News; Aspen, Colorado
--08/02/08  Interview With Mitzi Rapkin of Aspen Public Radio; Aspen, Colorado
--08/01/08  Libya: Passage of Legislation on Compensation for Claims; Washington, DC

  
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Achieving the Pursuit of Happiness Through Education
(Sept. 15): "What we do when we fight for and struggle for education, when we confront what President Bush has called “the soft bigotry of low expectations,” is we fight for America’s confidence as a leader: confidence that our people will be capable of taking the jobs of the 21st century so that we do not have to turn inward and protect; confident that we will live up to our great national myth that it doesn't matter where you came from, it matters where you’re going, and that for each successive generation that will be truer; but confident too that, as a people, we are united in our belief and in our certainty that our national belief in the pursuit of happiness, the transformation that takes place when you’re educated, is available to all."  Full Text

U.S., Ghana Note Friendship of the Future
(Sept. 15): "America was founded by Europeans and Africans together. And in that founding, we forged a relationship; we forged a relationship of blood and tears. Now, we forge on that basis a relationship of hope and promise." Full Text

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