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The Bret Baier Podcast

One-on-One: Secretary Condoleezza Rice: "We Keep Striving"

The Bret Baier Podcast

FOX News Podcasts

News, Politics, News Commentary

3.6681 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

“The case for America is not that America is perfect. The case for America is we keep striving.” – Condoleezza Rice.   In this exclusive interview, Bret speaks to the former Secretary of State to President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, the first-ever Black American Woman to hold the title. Secretary Rice tells the story of how she was able to rise to prominence in an era where Jim Crow laws prohibited millions from a fair shot at the American dream, and why she grew to love her country despite that.   Secretary Rice also discusses the difficulties she faced in helping run a nation with hundreds of conflicting views, the role America must play in international politics, and why millions across the globe still strive for American citizenship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Madam Secretary, thanks for the time.

0:46.1

July 4th, 2026 will celebrate the 250th birthday of the country, and American greatness is going to be on display, definitely.

0:57.0

But it's also on trial. And I'm doing this project, the case for America, as if making the

1:03.5

case why America is a great place, especially at this anniversary. You know, in your memoir,

1:10.0

you speak of your extraordinary, ordinary

1:12.6

family. Isn't that kind of the American story, ordinary people doing extraordinary things?

1:20.7

That is absolutely the American story. And it's extraordinary that in this environment,

1:28.3

you find people who do it against all kinds of circumstances

1:32.3

that we would otherwise think we're really crippling.

1:35.3

That's really the American story,

1:37.3

is that these people take the freedom that we are given as Americans,

1:42.3

the fact that we're allowed to chart our own course.

1:46.0

And they then, whatever their circumstances, they manage to achieve amazing things.

1:52.0

And so what I've always loved about America is that you're not prisoner of either your circumstances of your birth.

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