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"If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors."

Action, Impatience, Military, Opinion

"I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people."

People, Job, May, Security

"Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries."

Nation, Countries, Television

"Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms."

Environment, Environmental

"I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were."

Knowledge, Action, Certainty, Military

"On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way."

War, Globalwarming, Iraq

"So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others."

Circumstance, Circumstances

"The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony."

Fear, Bugs, Country, May

"The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid."

War, Decision, End, Weapons

"The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq."

Politics, Iraq

Exlpore more Management quotes

"No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team."

Jim Evans, American Athlete

Management, Manager, Fighting, Job, Umpire

"Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves."

Brian Clough, English Athlete

Management, Manager, Pressure, World

"The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'"

Tom Coburn, American Politician

Management, Eye, May, Needs

"Effective management always means asking the right question."

Robert Heller, American Businessman

Management, Question, Right

"A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them."

Miller Huggins, American Athlete

Management, Manager, Cards, Play

"There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw."

Connie Mack, American Businessman

Management, Manager, Name

"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it."

Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese Author

Management, Manager, Innocence

"Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week."

Andrea Mitchell, American Journalist

Management, Job, Wages

"The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product."

Peter Drucker, American Businessman

Management,

"The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity."

Robert Heller, American Businessman

Management, Choice, Difference