Richard Holbrooke Quotes

• I’m a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy’s Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

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

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

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• Elections are rarely perfect.

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• Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

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• World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

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

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• As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

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Richard Holbrooke (29)

Birth:	24th April, 1941
Death:	13th December, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Banker, Diplomat, Editor, Politician, Professor

About

Richard Holbrooke was the only person to have held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for two different regions of the world. From 1993 to 1994, he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany. Holbrooke was a leading contender to succeed the retiring Warren Christopher as Secretary of State but was passed over on 1996 as President Bill Clinton chose Madeleine Albright instead. From 1999 to 2001, Holbrooke served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

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