#om

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life. ↗

— John Pomfret

#american life #bosnian #chinese #experience #korean

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever. ↗

— John Pomfret

#america #beacon #broader #control #democracy

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied. ↗

— George Westinghouse

#fellow #fellow man #happiness #i #man

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis. ↗

— John Pomfret

#china #city #front #grew #i

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. ↗

— John Pomfret

#because #become #came #desire #i

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#agenda #changes #crisis #franklin #franklin roosevelt

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#first #last #lay #new #nor

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#ancestors #been #both #business #come

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant? ↗

— Pete du Pont

#attacks #coming #could #electronically #government

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#capture #congress #democratic #distinction #edge