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Quotes by Diplomat
"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."
6
"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."
6
"We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government."
6
"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."
6
"That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well."
6
"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."
6
"Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust."
6
"In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer."
6
"There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed."
6
"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."
6
"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"."
6
"And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons."
6
"We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion."
6
"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."
6
"The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies."
6
"What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort."
6
"It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous."
5
"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
5
"I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations."
5
"Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration."
5
"I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states."
5
"If North Korea is allowed to maintain its nuclear weapons programs, other nations may well follow suit and some may buy such weapons from the North Koreans."
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