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Warren Christopher (34)

Birth:	27th October, 1925
Death:	16th March, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Diplomat, Lawyer, Politician

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• Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don’t stop at a nation’s borders.

  Warren Christopher

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• You know, it’s been President Clinton’s dream that we’ll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that’s a commitment.

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• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

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• We’ve worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He’s been a reformer. We’ve been able to accomplish a number of things together.

  Warren Christopher

• We’ve had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it’s going to be a very important six months for NATO.

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• We’ve had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

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• We see considerable strain in Russia, and that’s obviously a matter of concern to us. It’s in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

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• We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

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• This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They’re a very powerful country.

  Warren Christopher

• The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We’re turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

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• The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

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• The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

  Warren Christopher

• The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it’s a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.

  Warren Christopher

• Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

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• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

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• One always wonders about roads not taken.

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• My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

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• My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I’ve tried to follow that advice.

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• It’s very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

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• It’s very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you’re doing.

  Warren Christopher