Quotes by Lawrence Eagleburger

About Lawrence Eagleburger:

Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger was an American statesman and career diplomat, who served briefly as the Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush. Previously, he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, and as Deputy Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush.
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We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.

Lawrence Eagleburger

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

Lawrence Eagleburger

The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.

Lawrence Eagleburger

The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.

Lawrence Eagleburger

The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will ...

Lawrence Eagleburger

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

Lawrence Eagleburger

And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group.

Lawrence Eagleburger

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Lawrence Eagleburger

What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join...

Lawrence Eagleburger

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

Lawrence Eagleburger

I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has...

Lawrence Eagleburger

There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palest...

Lawrence Eagleburger

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

Lawrence Eagleburger

We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.

Lawrence Eagleburger

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

Lawrence Eagleburger

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

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Author Bio

  • NameLawrence Eagleburger
  • DescriptionAmerican statesman and diplomat
  • AliasesLawrence Sidney Eagleburger
  • BornAugust 1, 1930
  • DiedJune 4, 2011
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionDiplomat
  • AwardsPresidential Citizens Medal