136 Quotes by Richard Holbrooke

He said I will make available $34 million if those $34 million will make it possible for us to get the deal and reform the U.N.,

The key to this is prevention, ... People must know their status, they must be tested.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

the U.N. inspectors had told the American military this was a major depot. ... I don't know what happened. I do know one thing -- in most administrations the buck stops in the Oval Office.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

The U.N. by contrast is sterile, overly concerned with protocol, overly formal, filled with set-piece speeches. This is what the U.N. in theory is supposed to be but can't.

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.

This is literally the first time in five years of them acknowledging anything that Clinton did. Until now the U.S. has been so completely withdrawn that we have lost a lot of time.