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> [If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as that's accomplished, they turn and start killing each other. This internal instability is a constant invitation to outside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/if-you-take-a-look-at-afghan-history-usually-they-have-united-to/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

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## Other authors on Afghans

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-khaled-hosseini-56995.jpg) Khaled Hosseini 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/afghans/khaled-hosseini/)

## More by Lawrence Eagleburger

> [ If George Bush \[Jr.\] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/if-george-bush-jr-decided-he-was-going-to-turn-the-troops-loose-on/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/the-question-really-is-how-do-we-get-embassy-officers-into-the-minds/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/there-s-hezbollah-there-s-hamas-there-is-a-whole-range-of-terrorist/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/and-beyond-that-the-next-issue-is-how-do-we-guarantee-one-of-these/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/small-and-medium-sized-companies-do-not-know-what-we-have-to-offer/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/we-have-to-spend-a-lot-more-time-training-people-to-be-good-advocates/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/americans-usually-believe-that-nothing-is-impossible/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/some-day-somebody-is-going-to-have-to-start-talking-about-what/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as that's accomplished,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/if-you-take-a-look-at-afghan-history-usually-they-have-united-to/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/that-said-there-is-a-tendency-to-help-the-large-industrial/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/the-consequence-of-a-world-full-of-nuclear-powers-to-me-is-so/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/there-are-sometimes-problems-for-which-there-is-no-immediate-solution/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/i-think-what-he-s-what-he-believes-and-he-may-be-correct-i-don-t-know/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/if-we-had-made-it-clear-from-the-very-beginning-that-we-were-not/)

[Lawrence Eagleburger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-eagleburger/)

> [In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-eagleburger/in-the-best-of-all-worlds-everyone-in-the-embassy-is-doing-something/)

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