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Quotes by Diplomat
"Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals."
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"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
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"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
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"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
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"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
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"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
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"40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight."
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""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
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"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."
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"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."
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"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."
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"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."
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"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."
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"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."
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"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."
Will,
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"Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to."
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"Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States."
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"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
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"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard."
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"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."
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"But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference."
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"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."
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"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
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"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."
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"This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine."
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"The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction."
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"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
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"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."
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"The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress."
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"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."
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"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists."
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"We support President Truman's civil rights program."
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"And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well."
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"There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people."
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