14+ John Negroponte Quotes On Education, Government And Democracy

John Negroponte is an American diplomat who served as the first Director of National Intelligence from 2005 to 2007. He also served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004 and as the United States Ambassador to Iraq from 2004 to 2005. Negroponte has held numerous other diplomatic posts, including Deputy Secretary of State, Ambassador to Mexico, and Ambassador to Honduras. Following is our collection on famous quotes by John Negroponte on education, government, leadership.

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed. — John Negroponte

We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces. — John Negroponte

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. — John Negroponte

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. — John Negroponte

It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator. — John Negroponte

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous. — John Negroponte

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries. — John Negroponte

I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc. — John Negroponte

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras. — John Negroponte

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration. — John Negroponte

The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point. — John Negroponte

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years. — John Negroponte

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations. — John Negroponte

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront. — John Negroponte

Life Lessons by John Negroponte

1. John Negroponte taught us the importance of diplomacy in resolving international conflicts. He believed in the power of dialogue and negotiation to find peaceful solutions to difficult problems.
2. He also showed us the importance of understanding the culture and history of a region in order to effectively engage with its people and leaders.
3. Finally, Negroponte demonstrated the importance of maintaining strong relationships with allies and adversaries alike in order to effectively promote US interests abroad.