Vernon A. Walters Quotes

• I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Doctrine, Ambiguity, Constructive

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• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Surprise, Endless, Expected

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• The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Country, Lynching, United States

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• For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .

  Vernon A. Walters

  Years, Sea, People

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• Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Attitude, Want, Feels

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• I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Pragmatists, Idealism, Describe Myself

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