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Quotes by Diplomat
"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."
15
"40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight."
15
"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."
Will,
14
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
14
"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference."
13
"International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable."
13
""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
13
"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
13
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
13
"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists."
12
"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."
12
"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."
12
"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
12
"Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals."
12
"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."
12
"We support President Truman's civil rights program."
11
"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece."
11
"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament."
11
"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."
11
"Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war."
11
"First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war."
11
"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."
10
"I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community."
10
"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard."
10
"They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!"
10
"The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point."
10
"The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain."
10
"The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39."
10
"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
10
"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."
10
"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
10
"There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode."
10
"The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought."
10
"So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others."
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