Lawrence Eagleburger

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#ambassador #any #compete #dependent #far

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#be prepared #frankly #gets #going #hand

And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#beyond #ends #group #guarantee #hands

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#economic #emphasis #necessarily #officer #political

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#best #doing #embassy #everyone #exports

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#khan #right #somewhat

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

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Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#cultural #foreign #foreign service #now #service

Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#changed #companies #just #know #larger

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

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