"A world without the United Nations or with……" — Richard Holbrooke
"A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability."
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Richard Holbrooke
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27 Quotes by Richard Holbrooke
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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the…
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Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other…
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws…
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Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect,…
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There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and…
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I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I…
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Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States…
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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…
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The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience…
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The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the…
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It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive…
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