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Quotes by Diplomat
"This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine."
63
"You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done."
63
"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
62
"First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated."
61
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
57
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
57
""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
56
"And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril."
56
"Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles."
55
"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
54
"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."
54
"It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it."
53
"Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
Vote,
53
"There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently."
53
"Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think."
53
"I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter."
52
"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."
52
"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred."
52
"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."
52
"The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles."
51
"40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight."
51
"These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever."
51
"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."
51
"The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision."
51
"I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate."
50
"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
50
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
50
"Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People."
49
"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems."
49
"Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God."
48
"That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well."
48
"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
48
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
48
"The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's."
47
"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."
47
"I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges."
Will,
47
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