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From Richard Holbrooke - And I Miss Him Every Day - I Learned Two Things. One, Prioritization: Never Take Your Eye Off The Longer-term Reforms. The Other Thing Is, He Was A Hell Of A Schmoozer! So I Should Take Advantage Of My Irish Love Of Beer And Gift Of The Gab, And Build Relationships. That's A Cherished Part Of The Job, Asking Someone, "how Did You Get To Be The Rwandan Ambassador?" I Try To Take Advantage Of The Fact That I Hope To Be Here At Least Until The President's Term Ends Getting To Know My Colleagues.

We Need To Find Means For Cooperation.

I'm Going To Washington On A Fateful, Even Historic, Mission. I Feel That I Am An Emissary Of All Israel's Citizens, Even Those Who Do Not Agree With Me, And Of The Entire Jewish People

Foreign Policy Is An Explicitly Amoral Enterprise.

I Joke That I Spent 38 Years Scouring The Globe, Going To War Zones, Trying To Find The Person With My Exact Birthday.