"She loved the way he played the game because he was aggressive and he went after what he wanted."

That sounds like a quote about romantic adventures, and when you know it's about Condoleezza Rice, you might think it's a quote about her admiration for George W. Bush. But it's from Washington Post article about how much Condoleezza Rice loves football. (The specific reference is to Jim Brown.) Here's the whole quote, from a former boyfriend:

"She loved the way he played the game because he was aggressive and he went after what he wanted. And that's the way she was, she went after things she wanted. She knew how to strategize and get control."

The Secretary of State is missing the Super Bowl today, for the first time, because she is in the Middle East seizing "a moment of historic opportunity." Hopefully, she will be aggressive going after what she wants and knows how to strategize and get control.



UPDATE: A literary emailer writes this about the boyfriend's quote:

I just finished reading Virgil's "The Aeneid" and thought how much that encapsulated Dido's love of Aeneas (well, the part that wasn't fueled by Venus' tricks). And if I remember correctly, it resonantes with Othello's comments on why Desdemona fell in love with him.