Top 43 Richard Armitage Quotes
#1. We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm to not only U.S. interests but allied interests.
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#2. You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.
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#3. Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.
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#4. I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call.
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#5. Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.
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#6. I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.
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#7. Well, first of all, I have to say that Iraq has already used weapons of mass destruction against her own people and against Iranians during their long war, so we know that weapons of mass destruction are existent with the Iraqis.
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#8. Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends ... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.
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#10. I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'.
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#11. You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misnamed. We're not so much trying to help people as we're trying to help ourselves. So let's be clear about this. So these are - in my view, they're cold calculations of national security and not aid programs.
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#12. There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.
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#13. What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?
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#14. I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.
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#15. True satisfaction and true justice, in my belief, will only come for Americans, and for that matter now for Spaniards and Turks and Saudis and Moroccans, when we put an end to terrorism.
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#16. I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.
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#17. There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what China will do with their new ascension.
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#18. The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
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#19. A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.
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#20. We've had Saudis and Jordanians and Pakistanis who have - and Syrians - who have been involved in armed attacks against coalition forces in Iraq.
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#21. As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.
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#22. I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.
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#23. North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.
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#24. U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.
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#25. Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.
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#26. Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.
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#27. The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This is addition to an extensive capacity to produce biological weapons, including anthrax and ricin, which is fatal within 24 to 36 hours of exposure.
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#28. Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.
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#29. I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.
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#30. The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.
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#31. Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.
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#32. The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.
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#33. Well, I think finding the weapons of mass destruction is going to be quite time consuming. I know we've uncovered some documents, we'll have to exploit them, and we're going to have to blanket a country the size of California and search, I think, quite rigorously, but we'll come up with them.
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#34. I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What were we really there for? What were we really fighting for?
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#35. The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it's going to be long and there's reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.
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#37. But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.
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#39. I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.
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#40. I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.
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#42. There are many countries who have traditionally sponsored terrorism. Iraq is one, though it appears the majority of the terrorism committed by Saddam Hussein is on his own citizens. Iran in this regard. Syria, with their close support of Hezbollah, is noteworthy in this respect.
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#43. I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.
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