Jaap de Hoop Scheffer quotes
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“Ever since I became NATO Secretary General, I have emphasised the need for enhanced political dialogue among the Allies. And I am glad that, over the last few years, we've had more regular, and increasingly constructive, political discussions in NATO on a wider range of issues.”
-- Jaap de Hoop SchefferSource : Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madeira, www.nato.int. May 25, 2007.
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“More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied in a coordinated way.”
-- Jaap de Hoop SchefferSource : Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madeira, www.nato.int. May 25, 2007.
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“I have been informed about the death of Slobodan Milosevic. It is unfortunate and in many aspects unsatisfactory, given the countless victims of the Balkan wars, that justice now will not be able to run its course.”
-- Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
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“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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