Richard Holbrooke
Public Servant
1941-04-24
Quotes by Richard Holbrooke
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Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
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The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.
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Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
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The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.
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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.
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Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
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There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.
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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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