Diplomatic Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• It was at a certain stage (you might have forgotten, haven't you?) that the United States actively collaborated with Saddam when he was at war with Iran: weapons were supplied, diplomatic and political support was provided and so on. Then the US fell out with him for some reason and decided to do away with him.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Iran, Support

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was really one of the - whose name is impossible to pronounce - who was really one of the architects of this very aggressive American interventionist foreign policy, you know, really stand up to Russia, challenge them, not only Russia but China. He's changed his tune now and is basically advocating for a much more diplomatic and collaborative approach to the other power centers of the world that are just kind of moving on without us right now.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Names, Russia

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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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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• When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.

  Margaret Thatcher

  August, Chinese, World

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• We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA. NEWTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people. NEWTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic. All people of NEWTOPIA are ambassadors of the country. As two ambassadors of NEWTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people.

  John Lennon

  Music, Country, Law

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• There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself

  Gene Sharp

  Strong, Public Opinion, Defense

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• In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the ostensible purpose of achieving disarmament. Rather, the United States would respect the Charter of the UN and would strive to achieve disarmament and settle the differences among nations through peaceful diplomatic means.

  David Cortright

  Military, Mean, Government

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• These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Manipulation, Terrorism

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• We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

  Vladimir Putin

  Political, Path, Return

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia". www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

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• I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

  Shinzo Abe

  Strong, Japan, United States

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• War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Military, War, Moral

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• No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.

  Kevin Rudd

  Past, Government, Support

  "ALP in 'me-too' policy mess over death penalty" by Tony Wright, www.theage.com.au. October 10, 2007.

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• If the North Korean side shows no sincerity in solving the nuclear weapon, abduction and missile issues, then the likelihood of normalization of diplomatic relations is very slim.

  Koichi Haraguchi

  Issues, Nuclear, Diplomatic Relations

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• Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Education, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.12, Templeton Foundation Press

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• President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie about Castro.

  Conan O'Brien

  President, Cuba, Diplomatic Relations

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• To advance from a nuanced dissent to a compelling vision, progressive policymakers should turn to the great mainstay of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy: liberal internationalism... (which) should offer assertive leadership - diplomatic, economic, and not least, military - to advance a broad array of goals.

  Suzanne Nossel

  Military, Goal, Vision

  "Smart Power" by Suzanne Nossel, www.foreignaffairs.com. March/April 2004.

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• You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Circles, Yesterday

  "Tell it how it is - don't beat about the Bush" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2003.

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• The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?

  Don Feder

  Running, War, Dirty

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• As a Korean War Veteran I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

  Charles Rangel

  Military, War, Support

  "A World Without Chemical Weapons" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2013.

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• We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.

  George H. W. Bush

  Hands, Effort, Humanity

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• We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's not suggesting that if the Democrats win, things can get worse. I mean, all we can do now is to look at our field policy and change the course. We need more diplomatic outreach toward Iran, Syria and Middle Eastern allies, and less bluster and less threats, and fewer troops.

  Jesse Jackson

  Mean, Winning, Iraq

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.

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• A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Long, World

  Interview with Michael Shank, www.counterpunch.org. February 22, 2007.

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• We must persuade Iran not t have nuclear weapons through peaceful and diplomatic means. We want a peaceful planet.

  Mitt Romney

  Mean, Iran, Peaceful

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• So you know, formally, what the government here is saying is that Israel's prime minister announced the appointment on Twitter. He didn't follow diplomatic protocol. But what we know is that it's about much more than that. It is about who Dani Dayan is.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Government, Israel, Prime

  "Brazil Rejects Israel's Ambassador; Israel Threatens Relations Downgrade". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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