20 ordspråk av Lawrence Eagleburger
Lawrence Eagleburger
Given the attitude of the French and the Germans, I don't think there's anything we can do that will convince them, because I don't think they want to be convinced.
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How long do we stay? How much does it cost? What does it do to our conditions within that part of the world? What kind of a regime do we put in his place? How long does it last if it seems that we are the ones that put him in his place?
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I didn't hear anyone making the argument very strenuously, quite frankly.
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I do not believe that you should have in the secretary of state someone who has spent their last four years in the White House next to the president,
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I think we have to be careful that it's clear we're dealing with him, but not to go so far that if he in fact sinks ... we sink along with him,
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I think, unless Saddam Hussein falls in a hole one day or somebody shoots him in the head, I personally think he is prepared to go down with his ship.
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I'm not sure very many people have had an opportunity to say anything about it,
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If I was to criticize the administration for anything, ... it is the general [opinion people] have in so many places around the world that the United States is so powerful now -- and the only superpower now -- that we can do almost anything we want.
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In the end, while I thoroughly understand and totally supported President Bush's decision not to pursue Saddam personally, I am now prepared to admit that it was probably a mistake.
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It was Sharon - and Sharon alone - who was driving this thing in the right direction.
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it would be a close call in either case.
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It's more than about time
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Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel,
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One of the things that was clearly a part of the president's decision was that all of his generals were telling him it was time to leave,
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Probably some of them don't believe it was a mistake, and for those who do ... people don't often like to admit they're wrong. I'm not even sure I'm right when I say it was a mistake.
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