Warren Christopher
Warren Christopher
Warren Minor Christopherwas an American lawyer, diplomat and politician. During Bill Clinton's first term as President, Christopher served as the 63rd Secretary of State. He also served as Deputy Attorney General in the Lyndon Johnson Administration, and as Deputy Secretary of State in the Carter Administration. At the time of his death, he was a Senior Partner at O'Melveny & Myers in the firm's Century City, California, office. He also served as a professor in the College Honors Program at...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 October 1925
CityScranton, ND
CountryUnited States of America
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.
An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.
I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.