American - Diplomat | August 1, 1930 - June 4, 2011
If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there.
Lawrence Eagleburger
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And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group.
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My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.
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There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.
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What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.
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What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.
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We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.
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We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.
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There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.
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The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.
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The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
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The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.
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