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A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
- Richard Holbrooke
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By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.
- Richard Holbrooke
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Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.
- Richard Holbrooke
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The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
- Richard Holbrooke
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You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
- Richard Holbrooke
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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.
- Richard Holbrooke
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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.
- Richard Holbrooke
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The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution.
- Richard Holbrooke
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People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.
- Richard Holbrooke
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I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.
- Richard Holbrooke
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.
- Richard Holbrooke
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Elections are rarely perfect.
- Richard Holbrooke
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I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.
- Richard Holbrooke
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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.
- Richard Holbrooke
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Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
- Richard Holbrooke
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