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Quotes by Diplomat
"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."
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"Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here."
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"We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility."
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"Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different."
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"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."
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"Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms."
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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."
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"The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler."
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"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."
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"Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government."
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"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."
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"A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars."
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"Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country."
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"Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading."
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"In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship."
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"Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves."
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"Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow."
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"All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice."
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"Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries."
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"One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing."
War,
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"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence."
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"Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows."
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"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."
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"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."
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"The system adopted in the Latin American instrument proves that, although no state can obligate another to join such a zone, neither can one prevent others wishing to do so from adhering to a regime of total absence of nuclear weapons within their own territories."
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