Warren Christopher Quotes

Venezuela has changed forever.

Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually just as its starting on reform.

I worry that a democratic transition in this period for a state like the U.a. E. would put, us in the throes of reactionary conservatism, probably for the next 30 or 40 years. I look at what is happening in Egypt and other places, and I wonder, do I need that kind of transition?

I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it seems as if America might come out of it, but I'm not sure if England is ever going to recover.

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.

Reform is one of the priorities of the Arab world. All countries and societies want to move ahead and have their own views of how to move ahead. Reform is an item for all of us to support but we have to be cautious because of the fragility of the security situation and uncertainty on the international scene.

Local conflicts can have global consequences.

Perestroika is our last chance. If we stop, it will be our death.

On behalf of endangered American interests ….

Russian international weakness was largely due to failures of Russian economic reforms, which made Russia extremely vulnerable, extremely dependent on foreign financial aid

If you have diplomatic relations, maybe you can try to change them from within. If you don’t have diplomatic relations, change can only come from without through confrontation.

In the current state of the world, the relentless march of globalization generates more ruptures, tensions, contradictions and collective conflicts than did the exportation of fragments of material modernity to colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries.

No one should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gains

Netherlands, Netherlands, you stand on the brink of your own destruction. Your ruin is inevitable unless reforms which must be as swift as they are necessary can avert the fatal blow.

I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

I'm very concerned about the countries bordering Russia. But let's stay off that stuff.

Believe me, most of the people in Russia are seeing the West as a threat.

Syria is a problem, but Iran is a bigger problem.