John Negroponte Quotes (62 Quotes)

We judge that Tehran probably does not yet have a nuclear weapon and probably has not yet produced or acquired the necessary fissile material.

It's conceivable that they are exaggerating their progress, but I don't have any knowledge to confirm that. ... This is a very, very high priority, acquiring information about their nuclear program.

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.

We don't know what to make of it (the passage). It's unclear,

On the basis of our inquiry we assess that the threat to U.S. national security posed by DP World to be low. We didn't see any red flags come up during the course of our inquiry.

The lifting of sanctions marks a momentous event for the people of Iraq. After more than a decade of being frozen out of the world economy, it is time for the Iraqi people to benefit from their natural resources.

I certainly believe America is safer since 911. And I believe from an intelligence point of view that our intelligence effort is better integrated today than it was previously.

Our impression is that the council members have welcomed this resolution, and it enjoys strong support, ... but I'd hesitate to predict to you at this moment what the precise vote count is going to be.

I think then the conditions will be created for the most expeditious and effective delivery of humanitarian supplies.

The former regime elements ... seem to have very good operational secrecy, ... And thus far it's not been that easy to make a dent in that part of the insurgency.

We've got major challenges in Iraq. It's (an issue) that occupied me when I was up there as ambassador, and continues to be one of great concern to me in this new position.

I am confident that with the creation of the NCS, the U.S. government will have a more cohesive and truly national human intelligence capability,

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.

But there's no question that there's a potential there for a number of weapons.

Globalization is causing a shift of momentum and energy to greater Asia, where China has steadily expanding reach and may become a peer competitor to the United States at some point.

This is another positive step in building an Intelligence Community that is more unified, coordinated and effective,

The warning I would like to make to the members of the august council is that the United States and the British were hoodwinked when they were told that the Iraqi people would receive them with flowers and hugs and ululations, and the children and the mothers will rejoice at the coming of the U.S. forces,

We may find that our self-defense requires further actions with respect to other organizations and other states.

It was clear that we weren't going to be able to reach agreement on a resolution regarding the International Criminal Court by midnight,

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.

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.

If chaos were to descend upon Iraq or the forces of democracy were to be defeated in that country, then I think, clearly, this would have implications for the rest of the Middle East region and, indeed, the world.

The draft resolution would mandate a multi-national force to go into Liberia in support of the cease-fire there and humanitarian situation, and would also pave the way for the prompt creation of a United Nations peacekeeping force thereafter.

They have provided some valuable intelligence information with respect to the war on terror.

Our own existence ... depends on our ability to understand and get along with the rest of the world.

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations.

We expect this strategy to guide the policies and plans in the various intelligence community agencies. So if you will, this is a sort of strategic guidance document,

We continue to hope that this issue can be resolved peacefully, and we want to work within the framework of the U.N.,

The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

The most effective way to ensure the delivery of humanitarian supplies will be as the allied forces move forward, secure their objectives, secure the cities, restore calm, security and peace to the various parts of the Iraqi nation,

This resolution helps pave the way for the increased security in Afghanistan upon which nearly everything else is dependent,

The danger that it will acquire a nuclear weapon, and the ability to integrate it with the ballistic missiles Iran already possesses is a reason for immediate concern.

Resolution 1546 defines the key political tasks in which the United Nations shall play a leading and vital role to support Iraqi efforts. This resolution makes clear Iraq's sovereignty will be undiluted,

I would say that those names were placed on the list based on information available to us which we considered to be reliable,

concern that the office be created consistent with the law that was passed last year.

The transitional arrangements that come into being will also allow the people of Iraq to benefit from their natural resources in a manner that will be transparent, and where the secretary-general and his representative will play an important role,

Our feeling is that we must change the way we do business.

It sounds like it's an interesting development. We'll have to wait and see what further develops on this question. ... I'm sure the inspectors are giving this their most rapid attention possible. I'm sure we'll be learning more as the day and the week progresses.

We can't anticipate every single detail, but we think this is a good framework, we think it deserves strong support from council members and we look forward to the vote tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock,

I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.

Such chaos in Nigeria could lead to disruption of oil supply, secessionist moves by regional governments, major refugee flow and instability elsewhere in West Africa.

a good framework for the international community to support the people of Iraq in the creation of a stable and secure society.

We were advising delegations to advise their governments to have instructions back to them and to be prepared to vote as early as Tuesday.

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.

No one has really slammed the door shut on our proposals, and it was on that basis that we came to the conclusion that we should allow for the opportunity for these discussions to continue next week,

Just in the (intelligence) collection area, that's an example of the type of accomplishments that we have achieved in this very short period of time.

Growing suspicions about Western intentions and Moscow's desire to demonstrate its independence and defend its own interests may make it harder to cooperate with Russia on areas of concern to the United States.

Speculation that President Obasanjo will try to change the constitution so he can seek a third term is raising political tension and if proven true, threatens to unleash major turmoil and conflict.