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"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
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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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"We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland."
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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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"When people have a controversial opinion about an event or a prominent figure, it can significantly increase conflicts of interests that can result people to be socially excluded who don't share the same perspective as them. The way people can end conflicts of interests is to negotiate their conflicting views and unite in order to establish tranquility."
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"Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION."
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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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"To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform."
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"I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to."
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"Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last."
Politics
"No nation has friends only interests."
Friendship
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
Man
"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
Politics
"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time."
Time
"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."
Life
"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."
Action
"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"
Friendship
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
Politics
"Old age is a shipwreck."
Age
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