41 Quotes by John Negroponte

This is another positive step in building an Intelligence Community that is more unified, coordinated and effective,

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.

It sounds like it's an interesting development. We'll have to wait and see what further develops on this question. ... I'm sure the inspectors are giving this their most rapid attention possible. I'm sure we'll be learning more as the day and the week progresses.

concern that the office be created consistent with the law that was passed last year.

If I were to choose one single watchword of this strategy, it's 'integration,' and I think that the whole thrust of this strategy is to drive toward the best possible integration of our intelligence efforts across the board.

Beijing's biggest challenge is to sustain growth, sufficient to keep unemployment and rural discontent from rising to destabilizing levels, and to maintain increases in living standards.

I certainly believe America is safer since 9/11. And I believe from an intelligence point of view that our intelligence effort is better integrated today than it was previously.

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.

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