John Negroponte Quotes

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• Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.
• It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical…
• To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
• We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing…
• Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.
• There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in…
• We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member,…
• Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I…
• Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just…
• I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across…
• Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic…
• I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make…
• It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua -…
• The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates…

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