Lawrence Eagleburger Quotes

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• My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to…
• I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced…
• There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.
• If George Bush [Jr.] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for…
• There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution,
• 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 us…
• There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through -…
• 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 be…
• My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.
• One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just…
• The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.
• Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.
• Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far…
• In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.
• The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task…
• The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used…
• In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
• And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in…
• What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the…
• We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help,…

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