Warren Christopher Quotes

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• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

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  Senior, Mad, Purpose

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• One always wonders about roads not taken.

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  Travel, Taken, Wonder

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• Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

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  Environmental, Collaboration, Borders

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• Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.

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  Giving, Answers, Sometimes

  1994 On Syrian President Hafez Assad's complaint that he had been put off by a hostile question in a news conference shared with President Clinton. In US News and World Report,19 Dec.

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• It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

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  Country, Historical, Important

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• To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're hung out to dry and, finally, you're framed.

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  Portraits, Dry, Firsts

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• Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible?

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  Strong, Opponents, Election

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• I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

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  Lost Friendship, Awful, Close Friends

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• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

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  Important, Temper, Courtroom

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• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

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  Country, Hymns, Two

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• It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

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  Moving, June, Russia

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• I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

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  Growing Up, People, North Dakota

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• An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.

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  Independent, Media, Democracy

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• My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

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  Father, Years, California

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• It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

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  Dream, Europe, President

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• I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

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  Taken, Thinking, Giants

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• My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

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  Justice, Advice, Important

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• Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

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  War, President, World

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• I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

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  Government, Safety, Giving

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• We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

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  Gone, Bosnians, Force

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• I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

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  Good Intentions, Intention, Skeptical

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• I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

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  Responsibility, Keys, Trying

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• The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

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  Country, War, United States

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• I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

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  Cities, Community, Want

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• Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

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  Jobs, Wife, Good Movie

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