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My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Somewhat
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Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
America
Believe
Impossible
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Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Foreign Service
Cultural
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We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Training
Time Good Business
Advocate
Time Business Good
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In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Embassy
World
Assist
Exports
Worlds
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The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Consequence
Danger
Nuclear
World
Dangers
Implies
Incomprehensible
Powers
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There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Problem
Solutions
Sometimes
Immediate
Solution
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The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Balance
Officers
Cone
Payments
Shift
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In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
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Resources
Traditional
Time Political Will
Constrained
Necessarily
Officer
Shift
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There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Education
Commerce
Community
Educate
Marketing
Partnership
Work Business Together
Business Community
Overseas
Work Together
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My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Administration
International
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What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Connections
Foreign Service
Officers
Abroad
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We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Attitude
Advertise
Perform
Provide
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Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Behalf
Medium-Sized
React
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The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Community
Embassy
Mind
Officers
Understanding
Business Community
Difficult Task
Matrix
Minds
Statistical
Task
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One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
War
Be Prepared
Hands
Nuclear
Nuclear War
Ought
Prepared
Thinking
Accept
Frankly
Hand
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And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Nuclear
Terrorist
Weapons
Al
Guarantee
Issue
Missile
Necessarily
Qaeda
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Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Ability
Ambassadors
Dependent
Foreign Service
World
Ambassador
Compete
Officer
Screwed
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That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Conglomerate
Industrial
Quickly
Tendency
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Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Program
Weapons
Decade
Iranians
North
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I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Believe
Iraq
Thinking
Believes
Correct
Intelligence Information
Leads
Revealed
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The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Concerned
Mess
Nuclear
Prepared
Particularly
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The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Gaddafi
Beginning
Fooling
Gotten
Wasted
Rid
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The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Games
Mature
Soviet
Soviet Union
Thinking
Worry
Missile
Union
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I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Believe
Convinced
Done
Hussein
Regard
Reputation
Saddam
Sooner Or Later
Support
Terrorism
Sooner
Saddam Hussein
Thereof
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What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Allies
Capable
Closest
Convincing
Evidence
Ought
Join
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If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Accomplished
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Tolerate
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My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
War
Isolated
Saddam
Successful
Terrorism
Thinking
Time War Power
Box
War Time Power
Increasingly
Maintain
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If George Bush [Jr.] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Iran
Office
Thinking
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There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Agony
Example
Iran
Israel
Ought
Palestine
Syria
Terrorist
Weapons
Focusing
For Example
Forth
Producing
Pumping
Targets
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There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Hamas
Indonesia
Israel
Names
Numbers
Ought
Palestine
Philippines
Range
Related
Terrorist
Great Deal
Targets
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If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as that's accomplished, they turn and start killing each other. This internal instability is a constant invitation to outside forces to come in. I have to think that after the awful years of the Taliban, most Afghans would want to remain at peace, and get the benefits of the new freedom they've found. But I can't be sure that old habits won't reassert themselves.
Lawrence Eagleburger / Former United States Secretary Of State
Old Habits
Thinking
Years
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