Lawrence Eagleburger
Lawrence Eagleburger
Lawrence Sidney Eagleburgerwas an American statesman and career diplomat, who served briefly as the Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush. Previously, he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, and as Deputy Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDiplomat
Date of Birth1 August 1930
CountryUnited States of America
commercial foreign institute officers service skills training
We must institute more training to give Foreign Service Officers the skills to do what they must do in this new world of commercial competition.
opportunity people sure
I'm not sure very many people have had an opportunity to say anything about it,
admit decision prepared president pursue saddam supported thoroughly totally understand
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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I didn't hear anyone making the argument very strenuously, quite frankly.
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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?
believe four house last next secretary spent state white
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,
believe america impossible
Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.
world embassy
In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.
community understanding mind
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.
thinking games worry
The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.
war successful thinking
My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.
believe support done
I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.
community marketing together
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.
thinking iran office
If George Bush [Jr.] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy.