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I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc. ↗

— John Negroponte

#also #arms #been #before #bloc

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous. ↗

— John Negroponte

#cambodia #communist #conditions #enormous #even

The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point. ↗

— John Negroponte

#america #central #communists #debates #denying

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#fancy #i #just #need #right

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

#ambassador #career #diplomat #during #early

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#comes #ends #finds #history #long

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#east #everywhere #home #i #mixture

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it. ↗

— Vince Neil

#good #good time #guys #i #i think

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#certain #economic #economic problems #life #only

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#become #could #identity #identity theft #now