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Quotes by Diplomat
"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."
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"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."
46
"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
46
"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."
46
"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard."
45
"Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable."
Will,
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"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."
45
"Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea."
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"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."
45
"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."
45
"Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business."
45
"All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice."
44
"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."
44
"There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people."
44
"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."
44
"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."
44
"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."
43
"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."
Will,
43
"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."
43
"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."
43
"A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence"."
43
"We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward."
43
"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."
43
"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists."
42
"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."
42
"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
42
"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."
42
"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
42
"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."
42
"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."
42
"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."
42
"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."
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