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Richard Holbrooke

There are certain kinds of second-tier confrontations which the U.S. does not need to get directly involved in. However, even in the second tier of problems, our intervention as a friend to both sides is important.

– Richard Holbrooke

Richard Holbrooke

Elections are rarely perfect.

– Richard Holbrooke

Richard Holbrooke

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

– Richard Holbrooke

Richard Holbrooke

There’s no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world’s attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.

– Richard Holbrooke

Richard Holbrooke

I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11.

– Richard Holbrooke

Richard Holbrooke

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

Richard Holbrooke

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

– Richard Holbrooke

Richard Holbrooke

I have worked in every – every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

– Richard Holbrooke

Richard Holbrooke

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

– Richard Holbrooke

Richard Holbrooke

I’m not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.

– Richard Holbrooke

Richard Holbrooke

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

Richard Holbrooke

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

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