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Quotes by Diplomat
"This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine."
48
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
48
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
47
"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."
46
"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."
46
"We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry."
46
"Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think."
46
"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."
45
"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."
45
"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."
45
"40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight."
45
"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."
45
"There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently."
44
"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."
44
"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
44
"It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it."
43
"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."
43
"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."
43
"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
42
"Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
Vote,
42
"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."
42
"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred."
42
""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
42
"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
40
"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."
40
"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."
40
"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."
40
"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."
40
"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard."
39
"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."
39
"There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people."
38
"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."
38
"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
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