Diplomats Quotes - Page 7

• A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Arses, Dukes

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control and operate their economy satisfactorily with prosperity and peace resulting. The peoples of the nations do not make war. For them peace is the natural and permanent order. Wars are planned and perpetrated by politicians and their diplomats; and the money power of government is the means by which the people are maneuvered into wars.

  E.C. Riegel

  Peace, War, Mean

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• There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!

  Michael Ben-Ari

  Israel, Looks, World

  "Israeli Leaders Made Some Astonishing Comments Over The Weekend" by Geoffrey Ingersoll, www.businessinsider.com. November 19, 2012.

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• It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Men, Giants

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity for HMOs. Holding them accountable is the only way to guarantee that you get the health care your family deserves.

  Tom Harkin

  Believe, Guarantees That, Two

  "Democrats, GOP push for patients' rights legislation", www.cnn.com. June 23, 2001.

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• A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

  Steve Lacy

  Athlete, Artist, Dancer

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• You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.

  Bob Dylan

  Horse, Cat, Animal

  Song: Like A Rolling Stone

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• Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.

  Michael Crichton

  Government, Police, Bankers

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• What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Teacher, Art, Humble

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• I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.

  Richard Armitage

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• Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

  Anne Rice

  World, Nuance, Language

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.444, Ballantine Books

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• Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were no longer needed.

  Rachel Maddow

  Careers, Four, Needed

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The [Donald] Trump folks chose not to keep [Dan Fried] on. He was actually - I said he was actually the third-most senior diplomat in the foreign service.

  Rachel Maddow

  Senior, Said, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

  Nadine Gordimer

  America, France, England

  Source: progressive.org

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• I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

  Khushwant Singh

  People, The End Of The Day, Life Is

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

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• We have Mr. Putin in Russia. And he appears to be a popular president of Russia. And I don't think it's the business of the National Endowment for Democracy or American diplomats or American foreign policy to try to change the nature of that government.

  Pat Buchanan

  Thinking, Russia, Government

  "Pat Buchanan On 'America First' Under Trump". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, www.npr.org. January 22, 2017.

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• [Donald] Trump`s incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke on the phone with Russia`s ambassador the same day President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and imposed new sanctions on Russia.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Phones, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

  Robert M. Gates

  Guy, Leader, Said

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• I am straight forward; I am not manipulative; I am not two-faced. And I think that that has served me well in all of my roles, particularly as a diplomat, because people knew if I said something, I meant it. If I said no, I meant no, and if I said we could make this work, we would make it work.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.

  Simon Hoggart

  Winning, Iran, Hostage Crisis

  "What do men guilty of 'inappropriate behaviour' think they will get from it?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2013.

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• A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

  Arthur Dean

  Giving Up, Player, Opposites

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• We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Father, People, Missing

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• British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Mean, Illustration, Expression

  Conor Cruise O'Brien (1994). “On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats - all of it.

  Riyad Mansour

  Music, Fashion, Roles

  "Fashion models strut in United Nations debate chambers" by Lorenzo Ferrigno, www.cnn.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

  Mason Cooley

  Lying, Destiny, Heavy

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