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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 be. Lawrence Eagleburger Read Quote
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. Lawrence Eagleburger Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business. Lawrence Eagleburger Read Quote
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 us in this effort. Lawrence Eagleburger Read Quote
What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad. Lawrence Eagleburger Read Quote
