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Quotes by Diplomat
"I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people."
10
"All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice."
9
"If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil."
9
"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."
9
"I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard."
9
"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
9
"Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military."
9
"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."
9
"There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people."
9
"Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines."
9
"The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler."
9
"We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE."
9
"The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized."
9
"A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care."
9
"This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine."
9
"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."
9
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
9
"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."
9
"If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person."
9
"Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading."
9
"Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries."
9
"It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them."
9
"I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep."
Man,
9
"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."
9
"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."
9
"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."
8
"We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces."
8
"Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners."
8
"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence."
8
"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."
8
"Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
Vote,
8
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