Author: Richard Holbrooke

Quotes

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

- Richard Holbrooke

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.

- Richard Holbrooke

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

- Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

- Richard Holbrooke

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

- Richard Holbrooke

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.

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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