John Negroponte

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations. ↗

— John Negroponte

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Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras. ↗

— John Negroponte

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To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. ↗

— John Negroponte

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Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. ↗

— John Negroponte

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We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration. ↗

— John Negroponte

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