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Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.

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Richard Armitage
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 26
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Richard Lee Armitage
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.
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Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.
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But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.
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I'm the only honest person in Washington.
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I'm not a massive fan of 3D. I've seen some good 3D, and I've seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I think if a film is created for the shock effect of 3D, then it's a certain type of film that I'm not massively bothered about.
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According to the United Nations Special Commission [UNSCOM], which carried out inspections in Iraq for the better part of a decade, Iraq possesses some 25,000 liters of anthrax. This is, for the record, more than 5 million teaspoons of anthrax. And we have no idea where any of it is. Saddam Hussein has never accounted for one grain of it.
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Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.
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Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq can again use weapons of mass destruction on her neighbors or she makes some liaison with terrorists who will use these weapons either against Iraq's neighbors or ourselves.
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I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.
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I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.
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Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.
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Well, I think finding the weapons of mass destruction is going to be quite time consuming. I know we've uncovered some documents, we'll have to exploit them, and we're going to have to blanket a country the size of California and search, I think, quite rigorously, but we'll come up with them.
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I value my ability to keep state secrets.
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I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.
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The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
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Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!
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I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'.
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You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.
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The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.
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I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.
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