She was responding to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif), sponsor of a bill defining the killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I as genocide.
Rice je odgovarala kongresniku Adamu Schiffu (demokrat iz Californie), pokrovitelju nacrta kojim se ubojstvo oko 1,5 milijuna Armenaca u Otomanskom carstvu tijekom Prvog svjetskog rata definira kao genocid.