John Negroponte Quotes

• Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.

  John Negroponte

  Reality, Program, Considering

  "Safe Haven Offered by Bahrain". "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. March 19, 2003.

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• Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

  John Negroponte

  Country, Support, Doe

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• There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

  John Negroponte

  Couple, War, Taken

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• It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator.

  John Negroponte

  Mistake, Lying, Editing

  "U.N. officials react to Blix briefing". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

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• To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

  John Negroponte

  Thinking, Reform, Election

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• We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.

  John Negroponte

  Motivation, Military, Fighting

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