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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

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

— John Negroponte

#bent #contrary #democratic #elections #i

We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces. ↗

— John Negroponte

#american #bolster #center #central #doing

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

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

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#does #feels #measured #passing #time

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#dealt #determinism #free #free will #game

Ignorance is always afraid of change. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#always #change #ignorance