"The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply……" — Richard Holbrooke
"The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it."
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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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A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of…
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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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