92 Quotes by Warren Christopher

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.