Rice dampens rumors about 2016 run

SAN FRANCISCO—Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday signaled that she currently has no plans to run for president in 2016, saying she will continue to stay involved in public service by lending her voice to the immigration debate and efforts to improve the education system in the United States.

"I learned that running for office really wasn't in my DNA when I helped [President] George W. Bush run in 1999. We'd go to maybe five campaign events in a day..and at the end of the day, he was raring to go and I was raring to go to bed. And I thought, 'Maybe this just isn't for me,'" Rice said when asked whether she would consider running for president following a keynote address at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco, Calif. "But I'll continue to do public service as I hope we all do."

"But I do miss the people that I worked with in Washington. I don't miss anything else about being in Washington," the former secretary of state added. 

Rice was one of the top speakers at the Republican National Convention this past summer, which helped fuel rumors that the former secretary would emerge as a front-runner candidate in the 2016 presidential race. In addition to her role as a contributor to CBS News, Rice is currently serving as a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Rice also voiced support for comprehensive immigration reform and said it is "one of the most important issues on our agenda." She said one of the top regrets from her time in government "is that we didn't get the 2007 immigration reform bill done when we had a chance."