John Negroponte quotes

“Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.”
-- John Negroponte

Source : "Safe Haven Offered by Bahrain". "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. March 19, 2003.

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“It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator.”
-- John Negroponte

Source : "U.N. officials react to Blix briefing". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

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“To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.”
-- John Negroponte

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“We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.”
-- John Negroponte

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“Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.”
-- John Negroponte

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“There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.”
-- John Negroponte

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“One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.”

“The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press

“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”

“I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.”

“Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.”

“To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.”

“The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.”

“I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.”

“Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.”

Source : "Safe Haven Offered by Bahrain". "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. March 19, 2003.