“The State Department, along with the rest of the Administration, will be a strong voice for international legal norms, for living up to our treaty obligations, to recognizing that America’s moral authority in international politics also rests on our ability to defend international laws and international treaties.”
– Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State in the George W. Bush Administration

“The United States does not transport and has not transported detainees from one country to another for the purpose of interrogations using torture.”
– Condoleezza Rice

“The United States government does not authorize or condone torture of detainees.”
– Condoleezza Rice

“I take my integrity very seriously, and I did not at any time make a statement that I knew to be false.”
– Condoleezza Rice

“We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
– Condoleezza Rice, Sept. 8, 2002

“Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They’re frauds.”
– Randall Robinson

“Pathological lying and manipulation are not restricted to psychopaths. What makes psychopaths different from all others is the remarkable ease with which they lie, the pervasiveness of their deception, and the callousness with which they carry it out. ”
– Robert D, Hare