Warren Christopher Quotes

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• I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person…
• I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
• It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
• It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
• My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried…
• Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that…
• I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.
• We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being…
• I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
• The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in…
• 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 not…
• Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas…
• Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this…
• The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's…
• This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very…
• We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very…
• 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 things…
• You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to…

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