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"Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences."
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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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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."
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"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."
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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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"British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow."
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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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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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"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."
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"To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French."
Genius
"No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight."
Behavior
"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future."
Power
"While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile."
Government
"Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed."
Goal
"I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair."
Love
"My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam."
Mind
"I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans."
War
"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
Money
"Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences."
Diplomacy
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