Just read Ben's piece, it's really interesting. She sounds like quite the character. Strong. No bull.
On walking and chewing gum at the same time:
"The whole point is we need to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. We don't have the luxury of viewing every issue, every country, every challenge in black and white terms. That was, in my opinion, part of the fallacy of the Bush Administration," she said. "But there are ways and means of accomplishing that. It's not always in every instance most productive to do it on a huge stage beating a drum - sometimes it is."On Bolton:
Rice said she's setting into the Ambassador's traditional routine of high-gloss - but also very practical - dinners at the residences of other Security Council members and dignitaries. The Ambassador is sometimes a bit of a New York society figure, and Rice places herself somewhere between former Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke, a prince of the dinner party circuit, and the U.N. critic John Bolton, who turned in early and spent as little time as possible in New York.On UN reform and the Bush administration:
"On the glitz glam spectrum, I'm not at the Holbrooke end," she said, "and I don't put myself on anything with John Bolton."
Rice also said she would continue to work on a favored Bush Administration cause, improving the function of the United Nations, though perhaps in a different spirit.Love. Her.
"They didn't invent U.N. reform - they gave it a bad name, but they didn't invent it," Rice said of her predecessors. "This is an institution that, despite its evident flaws, we are much better off having function effectively."
