“You have to remain calm. You can’t make precipitous decisions. You just have to sit down and be very thoughtful and deliberative in everything you say and do.”

— Gary Locke

"An Interview with Gary Locke, Former U.S. Ambassador to China" in The Yale Politic https://thepolitic.org/an-interview-with-gary-locke-former-u-s-ambassador-to-china/ (5 June 2017)

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