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She appeared as herself in 2011 on the [[NBC]] sitcom ''[[30 Rock]]'' in the [[30 Rock (season 5)|fifth-season]] episode "[[Everything Sunny All the Time Always]]", in which she engages in a classical-music duel with [[Jack Donaghy]] ([[Alec Baldwin]]). Within the world of the show, Donaghy had had a relationship with Rice during the show's first season.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}}
In May 2011, after the [[Killing of Osama bin Laden|killing of Osama bin Laden]], Rice told [[Zain Verjee]] that bin Laden's death was "gratifying because for our country this brings an important chapter to a close and it shows that the United States can, with patience and persistence, do something like this." She argued against removing troops from Afghanistan until the US finished helping the country "get more decent governance".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/03/condoleezza-rice-on-bin-ladens-death/|title=Condoleezza Rice on bin Laden’s Death|date=May 3, 2011|publisher=CNN}}</ref>
Rice delivered a speech at the [[2012 Republican National Convention]].
In 2013, Rice charged Iran with having "done everything to make certain that you can't trust them", citing Iran's decades-long hiding of its nuclear program and giving the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] "the runaround."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/condoleezza-rice-iran-absolutely-cannot-be-trusted/|title=Condoleezza Rice: Iran "absolutely" cannot be trusted|date=October 2, 2013|publisher=CBS News}}</ref> In 2015, Rice initially declined taking a public position on [[Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action]] "because I know how hard it is to be in there as opposed to out here", but added, "This particular deal I think has some good elements but the price that was paid was pretty high. It’s entirely possible that they are already at threshold status and we will never know it."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-administration-attacked-by-condoleezza-rice-over-iran-nuclear-deal-a6714026.html|title=Obama administration attacked by Condoleezza Rice over Iran nuclear deal|date=October 29, 2015|publisher=Independent}}</ref> As the Trump administration weighed pulling out of the agreement, Rice said she would have "stayed in for alliance management reasons more than anything else" and charged the verification methods of the deal as not being "very strong."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/policy/international/middle-east-north-africa/385626-condoleezza-rice-defends-trump-leaving-iran/|title=Condoleezza Rice defends Trump leaving Iran nuclear deal|first=Mallory|last=Shelbourne|publisher=The Hill|date=May 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2018-05-02/quitting-iran-deal-a-bad-idea-but-not-end-of-world-rice-says?embedded-checkout=true|title=Quitting Iran Deal a Bad Idea But Not End of World, Condoleezza Rice Says|first=Daniel|last=Flatley|date=May 2, 2018|publisher=Bloomberg}}</ref>
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In 2018, Rice called decisions by North Korean leader [[Kim Jong Un]] to make overtures to the South Koreans "clever" and expressed that he was more isolated and reckless than his father.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/14/politics/condoleezza-rice-david-axelrod-kim-jong-un-cnntv/index.html|title=Condoleezza Rice: Kim Jong Un is ‘actually pretty clever’|date=January 14, 2018|publisher=CNN}}</ref>
In November 2019, as House Democrats moved forward with their impeachment inquiry into President Trump for his correspondence with Ukraine, Rice commented that she did not "like for the President of the United States to mention an American citizen for investigation to a foreign leader" and that she was troubled by "a state of conflict between the foreign policy professionals and someone in Rudy Giuliani who says he was acting on behalf of the President."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/12/politics/condoleezza-rice-donald-trump-zelensky-call-joe-biden/index.html|title=Condoleezza Rice says Trump asking Ukraine to investigate Biden is ‘out of bounds’|first=Devan|last=Cole|date=November 12, 2019|publisher=CNN}}</ref>
In 2021, Rice wrote an op-ed arguing that the United States withdrew from Afghanistan too quickly and called claims that Afghans were to blame for Taliban takeover a "corrosive and deeply unfair narrative".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/condoleeza-rice-bush-afghanistan-taliban-b1904679.html|title=Condoleezza Rice speaks out on Afghan withdrawal: ‘The Afghan people didn’t choose the Taliban’|date=August 18, 2021|publisher=Independent}}</ref>
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In early December 2008, Rice praised President-elect Barack Obama's selection of New York [[United States Senate|senator]] [[Hillary Clinton]] to succeed her as Secretary of State, saying "she's terrific". Rice, who spoke to Clinton after her selection, said Clinton "is someone of intelligence and she'll do a great job".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2008/12/rice-on-hillary.html|title=Rice on Hillary: 'She's Terrific'|work=[[ABC News]]|first=George|last=Stephanopoulos |author-link=George Stephanopoulos|date=December 7, 2008|access-date=December 7, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208212642/http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2008/12/rice-on-hillary.html|archive-date=December 8, 2008}}</ref>
Rumors arose once again during the [[2012 United States presidential election|2012 presidential race]] that presumptive nominee [[Mitt Romney]] was looking into vetting Rice for the vice presidency. Rice once again denied any such intentions or desires to become the vice president, reiterating in numerous interviews that she "is a policy maker, not a politician."<ref>{{cite web|title=Condoleezza Rice's thoughts on a vice presidency|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6r4mqNmjXo|url-status=dead|access-date=2021-01-13|website=YouTube|archive-date=December 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211230233702/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6r4mqNmjXo}}</ref> Speculation ended in August 2012 when Romney announced that Representative [[Paul Ryan]] was chosen as his running-mate.<ref>{{cite web |date=August 11, 2012 |title=Mitt Romney chooses Paul Ryan as running mate |url=https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2012/08/11/mitt-romney-chooses-paul-ryan-as-running-mate}}</ref>
According to [[Bob Woodward]]'s 2018 book ''[[Fear: Trump in the White House]]'', then-[[Republican National Committee]] chairman [[Reince Priebus]] told then Republican nominee Donald Trump, that he should drop out of the race for the good of the party following the release of the [[Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape|''Access Hollywood'' tapes]]. During these discussions, it was revealed that [[Mike Pence]], the vice presidential nominee, had agreed to replace Trump on the top of the ticket as the Republican presidential nominee, with Rice agreeing to be Pence's running mate.<ref>{{cite web|title=Here are the top takeaways from Bob Woodward's new book on Donald Trump|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-takeaways-bob-woodwards-book-donald-trump/story?id=57611974|date=September 4, 2018|access-date=January 13, 2021|website=ABC News|language=en}}</ref>
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