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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You will never catch up with the spread of AIDS no matter how much money, no matter how many antiretrovirals are put into the system, unless you stop its growth. And the only way to stop its growth is prevention.
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Dayton is a demonstration that American leadership is indispensable. But leadership means cooperation with allies and pressure on adversaries. Neither rule was followed in Iraq , with disastrous consequences.
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The status quo is stable, but it won't be stable forever,
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The differences between the two sides are real but small, and they can be resolved by diplomatic means.
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This place has been a mess for a long time, but a different kind of mess. The war was messy, the decade that preceded the war was messy, the history back to 1912 was messy ... and the task is immense,
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The Security Council has taken a critical step toward helping Congo and the region come to the peace that it so desperately needs,
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It was his ruthlessness and vision that helped to create Bosnia and Herzegovina,
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It's hard exaggerate this. If it had been for Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnia would not exist today ... He was the visionary.
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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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It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action
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We're still behind. But we picked up some steam and we closed the gap.
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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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Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
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I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11.