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Quotes by Diplomat
"I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others."
38
"There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution."
38
"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."
38
"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."
38
"Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country."
38
"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."
37
"We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility."
37
"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament."
37
"The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men."
37
"If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person."
37
"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."
37
"Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People."
37
"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."
37
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
36
"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."
36
"There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders."
36
"We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids."
36
"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."
36
"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."
36
"Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?"
36
"A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars."
36
"We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion."
36
"And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice."
36
"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
35
"The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler."
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