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She so impressed President Bush that he introduced her to [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] as the one who "tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union." [http://dir.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/03/20/rice/index.html]
After working for Bush senior she returned to Stanford in 1991. In 1993 she was appointed Stanford Provost, becoming the youngest person in the position as well as first woman and first non-white. She held the position until 1999.
"...So if you are in tune with your allies, you say what you mean and mean what you say, if you avoid foreign policy that appears to the whole world like photo opportunities. Then you'll have plenty of credibility," she said. [http://www.foreignpolicy2000.org/convention/archives/t_rice.html]
[[Richard N. Haass]], the former director of policy planning at the State Department told the ''New York Times'' of meeting Rice in July 2002 to discuss Iraq policy. "Basically she cut me off and said, `Save your breath -- the president has already decided what he's going to do on this,' " he said. [http://college4.nytimes.com/guests/articles/2004/01/07/2283002.xml]
Beginning in 2002, Rice became one of the Bush administration's most outspoken supporters of the 2003 war in Iraq, arguing that Saddam Hussein posed a nuclear danger to the world. As administration hard-liners worked to build support for war beginning in 2002, Rice often mentioned the fear that Hussein would develop a [[nuclear weapon]].