136 Quotes by Richard Holbrooke

We are at the brink. Time is short.

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.

We would view with the greatest possible concern any such event, ... It would do Indonesia immense, perhaps irreparable damage.

Ultimately the decision as to what happens will be made by the decisions and actions of the Yugoslav leadership. They have the power to stop this tragedy. They have the power to take action to reverse it.

We're still behind. But we picked up some steam and we closed the gap.

We want to change it from a New York institution with regional branches into a global institution with a New York headquarters.

We hope to make clear to president Milosevic and the people of Yugoslavia the extreme gravity of the situation,

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

one of the worst of the people in the region -- a racist, a separatist, a war criminal ...