Editing Condoleezza Rice (section)

==Political positions==
Condoleezza Rice is often described as a [[Centrism|centrist]] or [[Rockefeller Republican|moderate Republican]].<ref>{{Cite news |first=Todd S. |last=Purdum |date=February 24, 2015 |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/condoleezza-rice-california-2016-senate-election-115427 |title=Dreaming of Condi |work=[[Politico]] |access-date=November 29, 2018 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023029/https://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/condoleezza-rice-california-2016-senate-election-115427 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/the-condoleezza-rice-effect/2012/07/19/gJQA53nvvW_blog.html|title=The Condoleezza Rice effect|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en|access-date=November 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129100443/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/the-condoleezza-rice-effect/2012/07/19/gJQA53nvvW_blog.html|archive-date=November 29, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> [[On the Issues|On The Issues]], a non-partisan organization which rates candidates based on their policy positions, considers Rice to be a centrist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/Condoleezza_Rice.htm|title=Condoleezza Rice on the Issues|last=OnTheIssues.org|website=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=November 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129100700/http://www.ontheissues.org/Condoleezza_Rice.htm|archive-date=November 29, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She takes both liberal and conservative positions; she is [[pro-choice]] on abortion, supports [[Right to keep and bear arms|gun rights]], opposes [[same-sex marriage]] but supports [[civil union]]s, and supports building oil pipelines such as the [[Keystone Pipeline|Keystone XL pipeline]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2012/07/rices-stance-on-controversial-issues-078489|title=Rice's stance on controversial issues|work=POLITICO|access-date=November 29, 2018|language=en|archive-date=August 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023028/https://www.politico.com/story/2012/07/rices-stance-on-controversial-issues-078489|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2012/07/13/politics/rice-vp-pros-cons/index.html|title=The pros and cons of Condi - CNNPolitics|author=Dana Bash|work=CNN|access-date=November 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129100528/https://www.cnn.com/2012/07/13/politics/rice-vp-pros-cons/index.html|archive-date=November 29, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Terrorist activity===
[[File:Rangin Dadfar Spanta et Condoleezza Rice.jpg|thumb|Rice meets with Afghan Foreign Minister [[Rangin Dadfar Spanta]] to discuss anti-terrorism efforts, 2006]]

Rice's policy as Secretary of State viewed [[counter-terrorism]] as a matter of being preventative, and not merely punitive. In an interview on December 18, 2005, Rice stated: "We have to remember that in this war on terrorism, we're not talking about criminal activity where you can allow somebody to commit the crime and then you go back and you arrest them and you question them. If they succeed in committing their crime, then hundreds or indeed thousands of people die. That's why you have to prevent, and intelligence is the long pole in the tent in preventing attacks."<ref>{{cite web |work=U.S. State Department |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/58232.htm |title=Interview on Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace |date=December 18, 2005 |access-date=September 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117024327/https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/58232.htm |archive-date=November 17, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Rice has promoted the idea that counterterrorism involves not only confronting the governments and organizations that promote and condone terrorism, but also the ideologies that fuel terrorism. In a speech given on July 29, 2005, Rice asserted that "[s]ecuring America from terrorist attack is more than a matter of law enforcement. We must also confront the ideology of hatred in foreign societies by supporting the universal hope of liberty and the inherent appeal of democracy."<ref>{{cite web |work=U.S. State Department |url=http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/50375.htm |title=Remarks With Senator Richard Lugar on the U.S. Department of State and the Challenges of the 21st century |date=July 29, 2005 |access-date=June 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232931/http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/50375.htm |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Former Secretary Rice Chats With a Member of the Saudi Royal Family.jpg|thumb|Rice chats with a member of the [[House of Saud|Saudi Royal Family]] after welcoming the new king [[Salman of Saudi Arabia]], January 27, 2015]]

In January 2005, during Bush's [[Inauguration Day|second inaugural ceremonies]], Rice first used the term "[[outposts of tyranny]]" to refer to countries Rice thought to threaten world peace and human rights. This term has been called a descendant of Bush's phrase, "[[Axis of Evil]]", used to describe [[Iraq]], Iran and [[North Korea]]. She identified six such "outposts" in which she said the United States has a duty to foster freedom: Cuba, [[Zimbabwe]], Burma and [[Belarus]], as well as Iran and North Korea.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

===Abortion===
Rice said "If you go back to 2000 when I helped the president in the campaign. I said that I was, in effect, kind of [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] on this issue. And meaning by that, that I have been concerned about a government role in this issue. I am a strong proponent of parental choice—of parental notification. I am a strong proponent of a ban on late-term abortion. These are all things that I think unite people and I think that that's where we should be. I've called myself at times mildly pro-choice."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30282-2005Mar12.html |title='Mildly Pro-Choice' Rice Won't Rule Out Presidential Bid |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 13, 2005 |access-date=August 22, 2017 |first=Mike |last=Allen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119200441/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30282-2005Mar12.html |archive-date=November 19, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> She would not want the federal government "forcing its views on one side or the other."<ref name = "4Condi2005">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/mar/11/20050311-115948-2015r/ |title=2008 run, abortion engage her politically |work=[[The Washington Times]] |date=March 11, 2005 |access-date=September 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916043936/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/mar/11/20050311-115948-2015r/ |archive-date=September 16, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> She did not want the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'', to be overturned.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/19/AR2005071901164.html|title=Women Closest to Bush Are Pro-Choice|newspaper=The Washington Post|last=Gerhart|first=Ann|date=July 19, 2005|access-date=November 29, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=August 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023050/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/19/AR2005071901164.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Rice said she believes President Bush "has been in exactly the right place" on abortion, "which is we have to respect the culture of life and we have to try and bring people to have respect for it and make this as rare a circumstance as possible". However, she added that she has been "concerned about a government role" but has "tended to agree with those who do not favor federal funding for abortion, because I believe that those who hold a strong moral view on the other side should not be forced to fund" the procedure.<ref name = "4Condi2005"/>

=== Affirmative action ===
Rice has taken a centrist approach to "race and gender preferences" in [[affirmative action]] policies.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-25-me-condi25-story.html|title=Rice Considered a Centrist on Affirmative Action at Stanford|last=Silverstein|first=Stuart|date=January 25, 2003|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=November 29, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-date=August 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023029/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-25-me-condi25-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She described affirmative action as being "still needed," but she does not support quotas.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/rice-weighs-in-on-affirmative-action|title=Rice Weighs In on Affirmative Action|date=March 25, 2015|work=Fox News|access-date=November 29, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129100248/https://www.foxnews.com/story/rice-weighs-in-on-affirmative-action|archive-date=November 29, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Female empowerment advocacy===
In March 2014, Rice joined and appeared in video spots for the [[Ban Bossy]] campaign, a television and social media campaign designed to ban the word "bossy" from general use because of its harmful effect on young girls. Several video spots with other notable spokespersons including [[Beyoncé]], [[Jennifer Garner]] and others were produced along with a web site providing school training material, leadership tips, and an online pledge form to which visitors can promise not to use the word.<ref name="Jolie Lee"/><ref name="NYDNews1"/>

=== Immigration ===
Condoleezza Rice supported the [[Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006|comprehensive immigration]] plan backed by the Bush administration and shared that it was among her regrets that it did not pass through Congress.<ref name="Fortune">{{Cite news |url=http://fortune.com/2017/02/02/rice-albright-immigration-ban/ |first=Valentina |last=Zarya |date=February 2, 2017 |title=Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright Say Trump's Immigration Ban Is a Bad Idea |work=Fortune |access-date=January 28, 2018 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129140544/http://fortune.com/2017/02/02/rice-albright-immigration-ban/ |archive-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2014, Rice criticized the Obama administration from seeking to approve immigration reforms through executive action.<ref name="Rice warns Obama on immigration">{{Cite news |first=Kendall |last=Breitman |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/condoleeza-rice-obama-immigration-112635 |title=Rice warns Obama on immigration |work=[[Politico]] |date=November 6, 2014 |access-date=January 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129140611/https://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/condoleeza-rice-obama-immigration-112635 |archive-date=January 29, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> In February 2017 Rice publicly announced her opposition to the Trump administration's [[Trump travel ban|travel ban]].<ref name="Fortune"/>

=== Gun rights ===
Rice says that she became a "Second Amendment absolutist" due to her experience of growing up in Birmingham and facing threats from the KKK.<ref name="Rice warns Obama on immigration"/> "Rice's fondness for the Second Amendment began while watching her father sit on the porch with a gun, ready to defend his family against the Klan's night riders."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/books/13book.html|title=Condoleezza Rice's 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People'|last=Garner|first=Dwight|date=October 12, 2010|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 28, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129195329/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/books/13book.html|archive-date=January 29, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Same-sex marriage and LGBT issues ===
While Rice does not support same-sex marriage, she does support [[civil union]]s. In 2010, Rice stated that she believed "marriage is between a man and a woman&nbsp;... But perhaps we will decide that there needs to be some way for people to express their desire to live together through civil union."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2012/07/rices-stance-on-controversial-issues-078489 |first=William |last=Bergstrom |date=July 13, 2012 |title=Rice's stance on controversial issues |newspaper=POLITICO |access-date=January 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411045729/https://www.politico.com/story/2012/07/rices-stance-on-controversial-issues-078489 |archive-date=April 11, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> When asked to select a view on a survey, Rice selected a response that said "Same-sex couples should be allowed to form civil unions, but not marry in the traditional sense."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Condoleezza_Rice_Civil_Rights.htm|title=Condoleezza Rice on Civil Rights|website=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=January 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201114418/http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Condoleezza_Rice_Civil_Rights.htm|archive-date=February 1, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Confederate monuments===
In May 2017, Rice said she opposes the [[removal of Confederate monuments and memorials]] or the renaming of buildings named after Confederate generals.<ref name="nydailynewsarguestearing">{{cite news|last1=Jagannathan|first1=Meera|title=Condoleezza Rice argues tearing down slave owners' statues is 'sanitizing' history|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/condoleezza-rice-argues-removing-slave-owners-statues-article-1.3147695|access-date=May 18, 2017|work=New York Daily News|date=May 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516200934/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/condoleezza-rice-argues-removing-slave-owners-statues-article-1.3147695|archive-date=May 16, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> She argued, "If you forget your history, you're likely to repeat it. ... When you start wiping out your history, sanitizing your history to make you feel better, it's a bad thing."<ref name="condiricedothaneagle">{{cite news|title=Condi Rice weighs in on Confederate history|url=http://www.dothaneagle.com/news/editorials/condi-rice-weighs-in-on-confederate-history/article_c623cda2-3b36-11e7-a84b-b31d888e4027.html|access-date=May 18, 2017|work=The Dothan Eagle|date=May 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518043319/http://www.dothaneagle.com/news/editorials/condi-rice-weighs-in-on-confederate-history/article_c623cda2-3b36-11e7-a84b-b31d888e4027.html|archive-date=May 18, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>