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
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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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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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Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.
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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.
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I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.
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it would be a close call in either case.
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When you're in the presence of the president of the United States ... you're likely to pull your punches to some degree.
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We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.
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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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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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We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.
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There has been a major improvement in the way U.S. Ambassadors and the Foreign Service establishment try to assist U.S. business overall.
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It was Sharon - and Sharon alone - who was driving this thing in the right direction.