In Diplomacy, Clear-cut Wins And Losses Are

Well, The Thing That I Learned As A Diplomat Is That Human Relations Ultimately Make A Huge Difference.

One Of My Trips Was To Meet With The Gulf Cooperation Council With All The Saudi Foreign Ministers, And When We Started The Meeting I Said 'perhaps You've Noticed That I'm Not Dressed The Same As My Predecessors", But No-one Had A Problem And I Was Never Treated With Anything Other Than Respect...so I Did Not Have Problems With That, Interestingly Enough.

No One Has Done What Saddam Hussein Has Done, Or Is Thinking Of Doing. He Is Producing Weapons Of Mass Destruction, And He Is Qualitatively And Quantitatively Different From Other Dictators.

We Have A Responsibility In Our Time, As Others Have Had In Theirs, Not To Be Prisoners Of History But To Shape History, A Responsibility To Fill The Role Of Path-finder, And To Build With Others A Global Network Of Purpose And Law.

I Know That War Is Very Cruel And That Life Is Harder When You Aren't Able To Live In The Place You Called Home.