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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Moshe Arens

  Life, Learning, Mind

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• Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

  Jack Hanna

  Cousin, Zoos, Animal

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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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• 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 doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

  Henry James

  Long, Matter, Particular

  "The Ambassadors".

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• The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Thinking, Paper, Sometimes

  Address in Edinburgh, Scotland, September 8, 1977.

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• Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

  Edmund Burke

  Agents, Politics, Different

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.172, Penguin

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• To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

  Tony Stewart

  Sports, Honest, Feels

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• I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years

  Danny Glover

  Years, Twelve, Goodwill

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• We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Japan, Desire

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• New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Party, Two, Way

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• I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Usa, United States, Firsts

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• I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.

  Eleanor Mondale

  Bahamas

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• He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

  Pierre Corneille

  Play, Advisors

  "Nicomède". Book by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene iii, 1651.

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