Diplomatic Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Government, Trying

  Interview with Peter Mansbridge, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 5, 2012.

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• The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

  Deena Metzger

  Political, World, Language

  Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• When the US government got word that I was planning to leave Russia to go to Latin America, they brought down the plane of the - the presidential plane, which had diplomatic protection, that had the Bolivian president on board. They closed the airspace in four different countries in Europe, I believe, which was extraordinary, unprecedented.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Latin, Believe

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic démarche.

  Frederic Raphael

  Mean, Son, Years

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• The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, Self, Evil

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• We [USA] don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Usa, Peaceful

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We all must be mindful that the United States has diplomatic, civilian, and military personnel deployed in other countries with both challenging security environments and active terrorist networks interested in targeting not just our facilities but our people. One of their greatest protections - knowing that the United States does not negotiate with terrorists - has been compromised.

  John Boehner

  Country, Military, Knowing

  "BOEHNER: Obama Intentionally Kept The Bowe Bergdahl Prisoner Swap Secret" by Brett LoGiurato, www.businessinsider.com. June 3, 2014.

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• American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything Presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

  Thomas Mallon

  Personality, Presidential, Students

  "Born To Do It" by Thomas Mallon, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

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• We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move. ... The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Moving, Japan, Faces

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• I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

  Carrie Coon

  Children, Middle Child, Makers

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• Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months.

  Barack Obama

  War, Blood, Iran

  "Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee joins Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room". cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.

  Uri Orbach

  Military, War, Israel

  "Israel bans national service with rights group B'Tselem in Gaza row" by Orlando Crowcroft, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

  Dean Rusk

  Rights, Citizens, Georgia

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• I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no
  agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody.

  Nick Saban

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  "Nick Saban: Sympathy for the Devil" by Warren St.John, www.gq.com. August 25, 2013.

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• I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  History, Knows

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• Technically, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic ties 50 years ago, but this wasn't included in the Normalization Treaty because forced prostitution, coerced sex just was taboo to even talk about.

  Elise Hu

  Sex, Japan, Korea

  "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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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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• Well obviously, when you're in a band you have to diplomatic about things. Everybody wants to put in their two cents and while sometimes it works, often times it also doesn't, and a lot of times it leads to arguments, like when there's too many cooks in the kitchen.

  Dino Cazares

  Two, Kitchen, Want

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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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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• 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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• The thing about our cast - and I'm not saying this just to be diplomatic - is that everyone is really fun, and really hardworking, in equal measure. Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] and Tony [Hale, who plays President Meyer's "bag man," Gary Walsh] are always doing outrageous "bits" in character right before we start scenes, which are hilarious.

  Sarah Sutherland

  Fun, Character, Men

  Source: www.elle.com

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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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• 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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