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"For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem."
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"The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive."
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"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."
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"The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure."
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"We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal."
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"I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane."
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"One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong."
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"At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say."
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"Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on."
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"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."
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"I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together."
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"The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace."
Change
"For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem."
President
"There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago."
African
"The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?"
State
"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."
Failure
"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."
Genocide
"When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all."
People
"The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today."
Change
"But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful."
Time
"Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily."
Peace
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