Lawrence Eagleburger Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 29 quotes by Lawrence Eagleburger Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (August 1, 1930 – June 4, 2011), also known as Lawrence of Macedonia, was an American statesman and career diplomat, who served briefly as the Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush. Previously, he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, and as Deputy Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush. Eagleburger is the only career Foreign Service Officer... Read full biography of Lawrence Eagleburger → 1 2 3 Ctrl → One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be... → 0 If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in... → 0 There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to... → 0 My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan. 0 In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports. 0 The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. 0 There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution. 0 That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is... → 0 The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet... → 0 The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this... → 0 Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on... → 0 The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that... → 0 We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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