"United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the……" — Richard Holbrooke

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

— Richard Holbrooke

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

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;… — Aristotle
The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;… — Charles Babbage
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going… — J. G. Ballard
I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care.… — Jello Biafra
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their… — Conrad Black
Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone… — Bono
Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency. — Bono
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with… — Bono
You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims… — Bono
Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers? — Elayne Boosler
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular… — Christina Aguilera
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute… — Jean de la Bruyere

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