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"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."
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"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."
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"I'm busy, you're busy, everybody's busy. I've got a lot I want to say to you, though. 'All right, Pia told her. 'Hit me with it. 'First, I'm so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we're going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let's do lunch, okay?"
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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."
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"It is easier to start a war than to end it."
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"Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth."
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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
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"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
Family
"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
Thought
"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."
Nation
"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
Opinion
"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit."
Quality
"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."
Family
"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."
Nation
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
Family
"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."
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