John Negroponte Quotes

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.

John Negroponte

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• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  

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• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

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• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

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• Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.

  

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• Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.

  

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• We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

  

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• What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

  

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• Without a dog, I would have tassels on my throw pillows instead of little stubs of yarn that look like small worms. The pillows seem to function just fine without the tassels, so perhaps it isn't a problem.

  

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• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  

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• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

  

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• Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.

  

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• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

  

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• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

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• I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the foundation our country was built on so many years ago.

  

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• France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

  

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• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

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• I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends.

  

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• I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

  

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• No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.

  

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• Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

  

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• 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.

  

  John Negroponte
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