Assimilate Quote by Richard Holbrooke

“Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.”

Richard Holbrooke

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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

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Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a…

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World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

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A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

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We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

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