Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
Richard HolbrookeA world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.
Richard HolbrookeIf a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.
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 Holbrooke