Condoleezza Rice Quote

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.


Advice given to her protégée, Kiron Skinner, while serving as Provost at Stanford University; quoted in James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans (Penguin Books, New York: 2004, ISBN 0-143-03489-8), p. 227.


People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.