"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."

Diplomacy, America, Elections, States, United

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"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."

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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."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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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."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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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."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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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."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

Wisdom, Heart

"Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"

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"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."

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"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."

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"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

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"I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses."

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"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."

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"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

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"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all."

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"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

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