Ambassadors Quotes

• The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

  Walt Whitman

  College, America, People

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.50, Wildside Press LLC

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• Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.

  Julie Andrews

  World, Want, Kind

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• When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

  James Sinegal

  Employee

  "Online Extra: At Costco, "Good Jobs and Good Wages"". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

  Walter Bagehot

  Agents, Diplomacy, Spectacles

  Walter Bagehot (1877). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.188

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• I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

  Joichi Ito

  Bridges, Groups, Roles

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• We are called to be 'ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor 5:20). Ours is a ministry of reconciliation ... To be an ambassador for Christ means above all to invite everyone to a renewed personal encounter with the Lord Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Mean, Encounters

  Francis, Pope (2017). “With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards”, p.70, Orbis Books

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• An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.

  George Washington

  Character, Spy, Needs

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.34

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• An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

  Henry Wotton

  Country, Honesty, Lying

  "Up Front With Robert Murphy" by C. L Sulzberger, www.nytimes.com. February 23, 1964.

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• Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

  Samantha Power

  Silence, Political, Atrocities

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• Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

  Novak Djokovic

  Country, Couple, Athlete

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• Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

  Henry James

  Mistake, Inspirational Life

  The Ambassadors bk. 5, ch. 11 (1903)

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• We are the hands, feet and mouthpiece of Christ. We are His ambassadors on Earth, called to stop injustice and restore His people.

  James Augustus St. John

  Hands, Feet, People

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• Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

  James Howell

  Political, Soul, Errands

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• It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

  Lindy Boggs

  Blessed, Privilege, Louisiana

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• A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

  Roger Moore

  Christian, Reading, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.

  Neil Sheehan

  Country, War, Winning

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• I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.

  Maurice Ashley

  Games, Interesting, People

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• I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

  Damon Albarn

  Missing You, Musician, Oxfam

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• John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.

  Maureen O'Hara

  United States, Wayne, States

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• The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

  Sammy Cahn

  Music, Song, America

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• Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  World, Ability, Position

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• Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Swag, Design

  Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Coinage Bill, March 03, 1926.

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• I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

  Felix de Weldon

  Men, London, Firsts

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• When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Japan, United States

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• I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Agreement, Boards, Nine

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