Richard Armitage Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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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“Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq can again use weapons of mass destruction on her neighbors or she makes some liaison with terrorists who will use these weapons either against Iraq's neighbors or ourselves.”
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“There is no sign, not one sign, that the Iraqi regime has any intent to comply fully with the terms of Resolution 1441, just as it has failed to comply with previous U.N. Security Council resolutions. The international community gave Iraq one final opportunity to disarm peacefully, and that opportunity has run its course. Dr. Blix [Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector] told us on Monday that there has been no progress toward credible, verifiable disarmament.”
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“The inspectors also found Iraq had developed effective means for dispersing these materials: unmanned aerial vehicles, spray devices, special munitions. We don't know where any of it is. And the last 60 days of new inspections have turned up no additional information that could allay any concerns about this military capability.”
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“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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“I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.”
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“Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.”
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“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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“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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“A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.”
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“I value my ability to keep state secrets.”
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“I'm the only honest person in Washington.”
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“Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.”
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.”
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“Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.”
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“Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!”
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“Ive never been that cute kid that was forgiven for being naughty.”
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“Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.”
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“I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.”
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“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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“I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.”
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“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.”
-- Richard ArmitageSource : "Documents: U.S. condoned Iraq oil smuggling". edition.cnn.com. February 3, 2005.
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“I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.”
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“According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it.”
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“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.”
-- Richard Armitage
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