Diplomat Quotes

Michael Schumacher

Hirohito

Kofi Annan

Pope John XXIII

Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius IX

Pope Leo XIII

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

James Longstreet

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

Would you know the qualities a man lacks, examine those of which he boasts.

Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur

No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the heart...only through work do we attain the true symmetry, strength, and glory of godly manhood and womanhood.

Alexander Clark

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

He wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.

Nicholas Roosevelt

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

Poetry cannot report the event, it must be the event, lived through in a form that can speak about itself while remaining wholly itself.

Balachandra Rajan

We continue to assert the principles of no political preconditions, mutual respect and openness to innovation as the basis of talks with Beijing, while showing goodwill and creating a friendly environment for communication.

When I was in the military I always made it my first mission to burn the enemy's crops!

William J. Crowe

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

Gabriela Mistral

I recommended that we establish contact with [the Chinese communists]. We had established contact through a military mission there but that we did not... we should not withdraw recognition from Chiang Kai-shek at that time, but we should recognize the inevitability of the loss, Chiang's loss to Mao, and that therefore we should, establish relations of the type that I described that we had with warlords, with the communists, and that we have, say, a consulate there, so that there was a political contact in addition to the military. That, of course, did not go down.

John Paton Davies, Jr.

Today we only smile, we laugh no more,
And e'en our very pleasures seem to bore.

François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal of hysterical laughter.

The Department has noted with considerable apprehension increasing propaganda rumors and semi-official statements in favor of an autonomous Macedonia emanating from Bulgaria, but also from Yugoslav partisan and other sources with the implication that Greek territory would be included in the projected State. This Government considers talk of "Macedonian Nation", "Macedonian Fatherland", or "Macedonian National Consciousness" to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic or political reality, and sees in its present revival a possible cloak for aggressive intentions against Greece.

Edward R. Stettinius

Robert Spencer: Just ask all those secular republics in the Islamic world.

Let your motto be RESISTANCE! RESISTANCE! RESISTANCE! No oppressed people have ever secured their Liberty without resistance. What kind of resistance you had better make, you must decide by the circumstances that surround you, and according to the suggestion of expediency.

Henry Highland Garnet

I am a fighter. I believe in the bright future of my country. I believe that the people of my country deserve a decent life, and I know that my people want to live in freedom.

Roza Otunbayeva

I found that many Americans did not even know that a country named Iran existed, let alone what it was like. Even among the diplomatic corps and among well-educated people, there was a vagueness about who the Iranians were or what the culture was, a tendency to confuse Iran with Iraq or to mistakenly assume that Iran is an Arab country simply because it is an Islamic nation. This fuzziness about the world outside is unique to America; among the intelligensia of European countries, for example, there is generally a higher level of awareness and information regarding cultures other than their own.

History is filled with undistinguished leaders who succeeded because they had a flair for selecting sound counselors.

In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.

I hope that government workers can be proactive. … Doling out punishment constantly would only cause them to have a mentality of 'the less one does, the fewer mistakes one makes.'