The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn’t matter where you came from but where you are going.

In March 2009 Rice returned to Stanford University as a political science professor and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. a high school guidance counselor and Presbyterian minister. Bush's administration as Director and then Senior Director of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

While Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chaired the Millennium Challenge Corporation's board of directors. Condoleezza Rice (pron. Before joining the Bush administration Condoleezza Rice was a professor of political science at Stanford University where Condoleezza Rice served as Provost from 1993 to 1999.