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If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
— Benjamin Franklin
It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.
— Richard Holbrooke
Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
— Richard Holbrooke
I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.
— Richard Holbrooke
Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.
— Fernando Perez
Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
— Richard Holbrooke
A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
— Richard Holbrooke
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
— Richard Holbrooke
It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action
— Richard Holbrooke
We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.
— Richard Holbrooke
I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.
— Richard Holbrooke
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
— Richard Holbrooke
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
— Richard Holbrooke
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything ... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
— Richard Holbrooke
Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.
— Richard Ebeling
Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
— Richard Holbrooke
I prefer reading books than the time on your watch.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
— Aldous Huxley
If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.
— Richard Holbrooke
Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
— Richard Holbrooke
If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
Elections are rarely perfect.
— Richard Holbrooke
I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
— Madeline Zima
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
— Lillian Smith
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
— Richard Holbrooke
The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.
— Richard Holbrooke
The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.
— Richard Holbrooke
I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11.
— Richard Holbrooke
WE All Can Make A Difference Towards A Better Humanity!
— Timothy Pina
