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Richard Holbrooke Quotes

American - Public | April 24, 1941 - December 13, 2010

By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.

Richard Holbrooke

Job People Forward Meetings You Way

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Richard Holbrooke

Peace Friends You Enemies Deal Your

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

Richard Holbrooke

Government Meetings Important Nothing

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

Richard Holbrooke

Country Will Become Victim Greater

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

Richard Holbrooke

Uncomfortable Run Because Disease

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

Peace World Trying Irony Over Bring

People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.

Richard Holbrooke

Decision People Political You Tell

I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.

Richard Holbrooke

Freedom War World Cold Feel Doing

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.

Richard Holbrooke

Politics Think Complicated Understand

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

Richard Holbrooke

Know See I See Democratic Every

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

Richard Holbrooke

Democracy Imperfect Even Surprised

The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution.

Richard Holbrooke

Life People Society Constitution Two

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