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Quotes by Diplomat
"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."
43
"40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight."
42
"The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be."
42
"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."
41
"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."
41
"This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine."
41
"Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think."
41
"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."
40
"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."
40
"It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it."
39
"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."
39
"What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path."
38
"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."
38
"There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently."
38
"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."
37
"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
37
"Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
Vote,
37
"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred."
37
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
37
"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."
36
"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
35
"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."
35
"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."
35
""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
35
"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
35
"Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable."
Will,
34
"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."
34
"I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest."
34
"A government is not legitimate merely because it exists."
34
"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."
34
"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."
34
"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."
34
"Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined."
33
"You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions."
32
"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
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