If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.
Richard HolbrookeThe World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
Richard HolbrookeIn diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.
Richard HolbrookeUnited Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
Richard Holbrooke