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- Nov 07, 2020
Diplomats Quotes
The work behind the peace.
These diplomats quotes describe a demanding, often thankless job: officers moved constantly between postings, expected to represent governments abroad while adjusting to freedoms unavailable at home. See related ideas on our Art quotes page.
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- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.
- Diplomacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russia has conducted a coordinated cyberattack on state election systems and hacked critical infrastructure. They have used social media to sow chaos and discord in our society. They have beaten and harassed U.S. diplomats and violated anti-proliferation treaties.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding issues left over from World War I, and Washington took the lead in negotiating naval limitations in the Pacific.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government, as a rule, discourages specialization: Military officers and diplomats are constantly transferred from one post to another, from one region to the next. Still, specialists do emerge.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Toughness' and 'credibility' are leitmotifs that run through both Trumpian and Kissingerian deal-making. Both men insist that war and diplomacy are inseparable and that, to be effective, diplomats need to be able to wield threats and offer incentives in equal, unrestricted measure.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence that they were either in touch with Abu Sayyaf or doing their own espionage.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
For even the most seasoned diplomats and foreign policymakers, the Israel-Palestinian conflict is a pressure cooker assignment that can cause angst of an existential nature.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020