The U.N. is sterile, overly concerned with protocol, overly
formal, filled with set-piece speeches. This is what the U.N.
in theory is supposed to be but can't.
Richard Holbrooke
The former US Ambassador to UN, spoken
at Clinton Global Aid summit in September 2005. |
We want to change it from a New York institution with regional
branches into a global institution with a New York headquarters.
Richard Holbrooke
As chairman of the Asia Society, announcing
plans for a major repositioning of the society and $100 investment
in new projects, February 2006. |
If women in the developing world do not have equal rights,
they will not have equal health, ... It is as simple as that;
the empowerment of women is not a politically-correct cliche,
but a living, essential goal for everyone.
Richard Holbrooke
Speaking as President of Global Business
Coalition on HIV/AIDS, 2005. |
Although he won't serve out many years in jail,
he paid the price by ending his life in jail.
Richard Holbrooke
On former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic
being found dead in prison cell near The Hague, March 2006. |
A rough kind of justice has ended his life in a padded cell
after his crimes were exposed and witnesses came forward including
his own associates and that, I think, had a powerful effect.
Richard Holbrooke
On death of former Serbian leader Slobodan
Milosevic, March 2006. |
He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic
nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people,
four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs
... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate
and now he's gone.
Richard Holbrooke
On death of former Serbian leader Slobodan
Milosevic, March 2006. |
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