Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned President Barack Obama to stir away from executive action on the immigration issue, Politico reported. Such unilateral action would not be in concert with the U.S. political system, she told Fox News.

Rice, who served as the George W. Bush administration's national security adviser before she became the nation's top diplomat, today is a professor of political economy at Stanford University, where she had also served as provost in the 1990s.

"We can't have a circumstance in which we are going after a problem as meddlesome and potentially divisive as immigration by executive action only, this has to go through the people's representatives," Rice noted "That's our system, that's the Congress."

The American people delivered a clear message in Tuesday's midterm elections, Rice said, in which Democrats lost control of the Senate while the GOP increased its numbers in both chambers of Congress.

"I hope that what he plans to do is to take the message that the American people don't like the course that we're on and there has to be change," Rice said. "He's going to have to work with Republicans, not just to do the things that the president wants to do, but to do things in a bipartisan fashion that need to be done for the American people."

Referring to Georgia Democratic Party flyers that asked voters to prevent another clash like the one in in Ferguson, Missouri, Rice said Democrats' use of the "race card" was offensive and out of touch, the Hill noted.

"The idea that you would play such a card and try fear-mongering among minorities just because you disagree with Republicans, that they are somehow all racists - I find it appalling. I find it insulting," she judged.

With speculations about a possible 2016 campaign resurfacing, Rice left little wiggle room as she ruled out a presidential run, the Washington Post said.

"I am a professor at Stanford," she insisted. "I am a happy professor at Stanford, that's where I'm staying."