Warren Christopher Quotes

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
Warren Christopher

Environmental, Problems, Nation

Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
Warren Christopher

Place, Both, Took

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
Warren Christopher

Time, Good, Alone

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
Warren Christopher

Peace, Strong, Election

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
Warren Christopher

Become, Talk, Public

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

Before, Problems, Move

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
Warren Christopher

Before, Taken, Forces

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.
Warren Christopher

Good, Give, Through

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.
Warren Christopher

Small, Until, Everybody

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
Warren Christopher

Single, Person, Try

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

Good, Intentions, Skeptical

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
Warren Christopher

Friendship, Friends, Close

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
Warren Christopher

Great, Strength, American

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
Warren Christopher

Move, Bring, Europe

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

Dream, President, Europe

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
Warren Christopher

Important, Else, Lose

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

Important, Country, Put

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.
Warren Christopher

War, Person, Him

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
Warren Christopher

History, Justice, Important

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
Warren Christopher

Health, Father, Old

One always wonders about roads not taken.
Warren Christopher

Taken, Roads, Wonders

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
Warren Christopher

Two, America, Both

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.
Warren Christopher

War, After, State

The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.
Warren Christopher

Confidence, Real, Free

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

War, Forces, Capacity

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Statesman

Born: October 27, 1925

Died: March 18, 2011

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