Richard Holbrooke Government Quotations

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

there is no change in (the American) position in the sense there is a clear disagreement between the Russian government and NATO. But that does not mean we cannot still continue close contacts.

The British Ambassador is coming this morning with us to Pristina for talks, representing his own government and, by extension, the whole Contact Group.