Diplomat Quotes
I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
Bahman Ghobadi
Iranian film director
Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.
Dominique De Villepin
Prime Minister of France
The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
Hans Blix
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
Madeleine M. Kunin
Former Governor of Vermont
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
Chester Bowles
Former Governor of Connecticut
I tried to explain in 'The Nine of Us' how we grew up with politics. At meals we talked about what was in the newspaper. We talked politics non-stop! Campaigning for our brothers was a part of our lives.
Jean Kennedy Smith
Irish-American diplomat, activist, humanitarian
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.
Gilbert Murray
British author
I'm passionate about politics.
Richard Grenell
Former Acting Director of the United States National Intelligence
And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.
Mitchell Reiss
Former Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
Any time you use military force, you have got to have a clear purpose that military forces can achieve.
Richard N. Haass
Former Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
Foreign policy must be about priorities. The United States cannot do everything everywhere.
Richard N. Haass
Former Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
diplomat and political scientist
But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.
Mitchell Reiss
Former Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
The film business talks a lot. People talk a lot. There's a lot of chatting. There's a lot of behind-the-scenes chatting. There's a lot of talking before you go and do it.
Greig Fraser
Australian cinematographer
America's armed forces are an essential background to much of what the U.S. accomplishes internationally.
Richard N. Haass
Former Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
We all have some basic obligation to one another.
Richard N. Haass
Former Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same.
Mitchell Reiss
Former Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
When I looked at my mother, I always saw a bit of Ireland. And I suppose when I look to Ireland, I see a bit of my mother - her faith, her wit, her endurance.
Jean Kennedy Smith
Irish-American diplomat, activist, humanitarian
I've spent a lot of time in India. When I was a young cinematographer, I was completely enthralled by the color, the movement, the sounds. But photographically, it was very hard to capture it; photographs rarely did it justice.
Greig Fraser
Australian cinematographer
Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.
Bahman Ghobadi
Iranian film director
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