Condi Denies She Has Presidential Ambitions

Posted on March 14, 2005

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice caused such a furor last week when she wouldn't rule out a presidential bid in 2008, that she had to make the rounds of the Sunday talk shows yesterday to put out the fires. In her own words, she said: "I don't have any desire to run for president. I don't intend to. I won't do it....I won't. How's that? Is that categorical enough?" That was on ABC. On Meet the Press she said, "I will not run for president of the United States. How is that? I don't know how many ways to say 'no' in this town."

On CBS' Face the Nation, she said "I don't think I even ran for class president at any point. I love being secretary of State thus far. I liked being national security advisor. And one of these days very soon I'm going to want to return and be an academic again and get back to the California life and to the world of ideas."

So, there you have it. She's not running--this week, at least.