Russia Quotes by Warren Christopher

8 Russia quotes by Warren Christopher

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Warren Christopher’s eight short comments on Russia carry his seasoned diplomatic voice. The lines give a quick sense of his strategic assessment of the region.

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We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a…

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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of…

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We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to…

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This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important.…

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I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters…

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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice…

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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French…

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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

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Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

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I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

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Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where…

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We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood…

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I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest…

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Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really…

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I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

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We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of…

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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…

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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this…

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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…

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