Richard Holbrooke
Richard Holbrooke
Richard Charles Albert Holbrookewas an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, and investment banker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth24 April 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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We would view with the greatest possible concern any such event, ... It would do Indonesia immense, perhaps irreparable damage.
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Ultimately the decision as to what happens will be made by the decisions and actions of the Yugoslav leadership. They have the power to stop this tragedy. They have the power to take action to reverse it.
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We are at the brink. Time is short.
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There are certain kinds of second-tier confrontations which the U.S. does not need to get directly involved in. However, even in the second tier of problems, our intervention as a friend to both sides is important.
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We hope to make clear to president Milosevic and the people of Yugoslavia the extreme gravity of the situation,
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We want to change it from a New York institution with regional branches into a global institution with a New York headquarters.
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I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.
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The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.
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I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.
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I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.
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The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution.
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There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.
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By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.