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"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."
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"The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place."
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"Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results."
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"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
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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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"Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans."
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"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency."
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"In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid."
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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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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years."
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"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough."
God
"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
Government
"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
Living
"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
Man
"No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs."
Man
"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."
Creativity
"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
Skepticism
"(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion."
Diplomacy
"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."
Maturity
"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
Experience
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