Diplomatic Quotes - Page 4

• If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, Asking, Actors

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• We need some leverage with the Russians, because they are not going to come to the negotiating table for a diplomatic resolution, unless there is some leverage over them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Needs, Tables, Resolution

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth.

  Chris Alexander

  Government, Organization, America

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.

  Mother Teresa

  America, India, Albania

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dressing Up, Dresses, Different

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• I worry about the lack of experience that Rex Tillerson has had on the diplomatic front and, frankly, I think that's true for many of the appointments to [Donald] Trump's cabinet.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Worry, Cabinets

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all, our diplomatic ties date back 150 years, more than 150 years now.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Japan, Years

  Source: www.rt.com

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• As for these 60 years, and in general more than a hundred years, we have had different periods in relations and there have been tragic pages in our history, but since 1956 when we restored diplomatic relations, regrettably, we have not had a foundation on which to build ties that would correspond to our wishes and that are currently required in bilateral cooperation with Japan.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Years, Ties

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam was a consequence of political, diplomatic, and psychological factors more than military ones. That is a tribute to the ideas that he introduced in his life and thought.

  William J. Duiker

  Military, Ideas, Political

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.

  Susan Rice

  Mixtures, Honey, Vinegar

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I am blunt sometimes; I am diplomatic sometimes; I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

  Susan Rice

  Eye, Sometimes, Blunt

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't.

  Matt Bomer

  Unique, Voice, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.

  Andrew Solomon

  Thinking, People, World

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• The most important publication of WikiLeaks is that it has published more than 10 million documents. The most important single collection of material we have published is the US diplomatic cable series. We started with 251,000 in 2011, but are up to 3 million now and have more coming.

  Julian Assange

  Important, Wikileaks, Collections

  "We Believe in What We're Doing". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• [I am] saddened, saddened, that this president [Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to go to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country.

  Tom Daschle

  Country, Giving Up, War

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• I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come.

  Dalai Lama

  Sarcastic, Giving, Want

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.1, Penguin Books India

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• When Hillary's getting knocked around by the folks on the Hill is Bill going to go Larry King to knock her enemies around? Will he be going off to foreign countries on his own little diplomatic missions? I had assumed he'd remain a step in the background as he has through through most of this decade. But that doesn't seem to be the case. If the constitution allowed it, I'd happily have Clinton back. I'd happily have Hillary in his place. But I don't want them both.

  Josh Marshall

  Country, Kings, Enemy

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• North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.

  Elise Hu

  Past, Korea, United States

  "North Korea Claims It Has U.S. Student In Custody". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 22, 2016.

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• South Africa is not Cameroon. It's a strong economy. I think they should be the first ones setting an example - improving the legal punishments for those that are involved, reinforcing the borders from every angle, meaning that even the diplomatic plane that lands in South Africa should not have the green light to leave without having the plane inspected. Obviously, those guys are often involved. If I get killed for saying that, so be it. That is the fact. There's way too many important people that are involved that don't want to change.

  Veronika Varekova

  Strong, Thinking, Land

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• Since 1981, after our nations severed diplomatic relations, we've worked through a international tribunal to resolve various claims between our countries. The United States and Iran are now settling a long-standing Iranian government claim against the United States government. Iran will be returned its own funds, including appropriate interest but much less than the amount Iran sought. With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Government, Iran

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

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• We have a strong military deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. In countries like Syria, we need a diplomatic breakthrough to end the war. In Libya, the country must first of all be stabilized to stop IS. This means supporting the Libyan government, including in terms of security. We don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past in that country. The situation is extremely dangerous and the next days could be decisive.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Strong, Mistake

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so I Googled it. For everything Obama stands for and the things he's said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing - and I'm not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral - that can't happen.

  Adepero Oduye

  Reading, Book, Past

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• You cannot possibly expect even the most illiterate person on Earth to believe that you really want a democracy in Iraq while you are paying Mubarak $3 billion a year to pretend he doesn't hate Israel. And you're providing the military and diplomatic umbrella that protects the fascist government, if you will, of the al Sauds.

  Michael Scheuer

  Hate, Military, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.

  Rokia Traore

  Father, Careers, Able

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• I am pleased though that there's a possibility of a diplomatic solution [in Syria]. I remain somewhat skeptical, but I am pleased that it's a possibility and I think people like myself who've been arguing for delaying this bombing, have allowed this diplomatic possibility to occur.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, People, Arguing

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