Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

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…

— Warren Christopher

Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's…

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all…

— Warren Christopher

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together…

— Warren Christopher

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…

— Warren Christopher

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back.…

— Warren Christopher

An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.

— Warren Christopher

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

— Warren Christopher

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

— Warren Christopher

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

— Warren Christopher

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until…

— Warren Christopher

Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants…

— Warren Christopher

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have…

— Warren Christopher