"William Anthony Kirsopp Lake", best known as "Tony Lake", is the Executive Director of the UNICEF/United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), author, Academia/academic, and former United States/American Diplomacy/diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and Politics of the United States/political advisor. He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic President of the United States/U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor (United States)/National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Lake is credited as being one of the individuals who developed the policy that led to the resolution of the Bosnian War. He also held the Professor#Named professorships/chair of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.

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It is nasty and brutish without being short.

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I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much."

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If confirmed, my job will be to present the views of the intelligence community, and my own judgment, unvarnished and unprejudiced, ... We must have an intelligence process of absolute integrity.

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[In a May 1996 interview with] Inside Politics, ... The policy worked, and now we're getting the Iranians and their influence out of Bosnia, and I think it's a good story.

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The decision is not driven by processes or meetings. The decision will be driven by the situation in eastern Zaire, ... It has been moving in positive directions. But we can't be certain that it will continue to do so, so we will on a daily basis keep looking at it.

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I hope that when we do run into incidents involving casualties, there is not then a great outcry for pulling back. It is terribly important that when you use military power and send American soldiers out, you do it unflinchingly so you don't invite such attacks.

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By 2010, Africa could be providing the United States with as many oil imports as the Middle East.

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