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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

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#humble #let us #little #may #perhaps

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

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

— John Negroponte

#consensus #country #does #hard #out

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years. ↗

— John Negroponte

#arrived #back #before #briefing #civilian

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#clearly #conceived #directed #effective #ends

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#crises #force #least #occur #think

Great causes and little men go ill together. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#go #great #ill #little #little men

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. ↗