Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service.
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What we need is to develop in all Foreign Service Officers a better instinct for understanding the needs of U.S. business abroad.Lawrence Eagleburger
I do not believe that you should have in the secretary of state someone who has spent their last four years in the White House next to the president,
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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.
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If I was to criticize the administration for anything, ... it is the general opinion people have in so many places around the world that the United States is so powerful now -- and the only superpower now -- that we can do almost anything we want.
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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.
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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.
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