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 are at the brink. Time is short.
We are at the brink...time is very short.
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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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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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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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The Democratic Party is the party that has created . . .
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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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Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
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We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.
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You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
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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.
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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.
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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.