Richard Holbrooke Quotes on War & Peace (12 Quotes)


    Assuming his death was of natural causes, justice has been served in its own particular way. He was a terrible man, a war criminal who started four wars.

    The Security Council has taken a critical step toward helping Congo and the region come to the peace that it so desperately needs,

    As for the peace process, we will continue active negotiations in the next few days.

    I think it's very important for all Americans, whether they opposed the war or supported to it, whether they are liberals or conservatives, Republicans, Democrat or independents, to be able to say with pride we won -- to embrace the victory -- even as we begin to discuss the very difficult decisions that lie ahead,

    They're loaded for bear. They're all expecting tough negotiations. They talk peace, but they don't show the slightest readiness for compromise. I suppose you could say that's to be expected on the eve of talks like this, but we're really hunkering down.


    This place has been a mess for a long time, but a different kind of mess. The war was messy, the decade that preceded the war was messy, the history back to 1912 was messy ... and the task is immense,

    Many problems remain, and sometimes forging a peace is more difficult than winning a war, ... KFOR is here to create a security environment in which deep, dividing differences between Serbs and Albanians can be ironed out in a nonviolent way.

    We hope to bring the parties back to the negotiating table, ... but the hope to avoid war is very small.

    He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone.

    I think it's quite clear that his nationalism contributed to the wars in the Balkans,

    We are not learning anything here that isn't in previous accounts, ... But to be in the physical presence of the events, that is different. While we are trying to forge a peace, we need to remember what brought us here.

    If the two sides don't want to go to war, it is quite possible for them to avoid it through diplomacy and a little bit of good will, ... If, on the other hand, they want to go to war ... nothing we do can prevent it.


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