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12 quotes by John Negroponte

This article may be in need of reorganization to comply with Wikipedia's layout guidelines. Please help by editing the article to make improvements to the overall structure. (October 2014) John Negroponte Negroponte in March 2007 15th United States Deputy Secretary of State In office February 13, 2007 – January 20, 2009 President George W. Bush Preceded by Robert Zoellick Succeeded by Jim Steinberg Jacob Lew 1st United States Director of...
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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... →

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I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran... →

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Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I... →

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I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot... →

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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... →

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We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting... →

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To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

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

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Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States... →

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The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to... →

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Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process... →

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We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the... →

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