"The stakes are very high for us in……" — Warren Christopher
"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 the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere."
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Warren Christopher
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38 Quotes by Warren Christopher
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Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a…
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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing…
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I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range…
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia…
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in…
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I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
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The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning…
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to…
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except…
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I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived…
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