Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Gephardt

Part of doing this the right way and the successful way is to put together a coalition, ... Sometimes that takes diplomatic efforts as well as military efforts to get that done.

Our message to students is very clear: Your high school diploma is essential to opening doors for future economic opportunity and wage-earning.

Our focus remains on diplomatic efforts to get six-party talks under way as a means of reaching the goal of a dismantlement of the North Korean program and a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.

I think this plan is really exciting. It really makes the high school diploma more than just getting out of school.

I did not like fascists when I fought them as a diplomat for 23 years and I don't like them now in my own country.

I would not say this is a sign of great openness. It's more like establishing diplomatic relations between two countries, rather than opening borders.

I have many doubts we can reach a joint diplomatic platform, but I think we need to try.

Christopher Dodd

I don't think we've been muscular enough, if you will, at the diplomatic table. I don't disagree that we ought to leave the military option on the table.

Glyn was a senior diplomat who had a long and distinguished career.

Ye Xiaowen

We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.

Joschka Fischer

When I heard that yesterday, I was very diplomatic and didn't pull a face. But in my head you could imagine what I was seeing: I saw people sitting around in dreadlocks with joints in their hands, and reggae music playing in the background.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

Igor Ivanov

The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

Barton Gellman

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

We want to be very clear, and not necessarily fuzz things up with diplomatic language that may get us in trouble down the road.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Ehud Barak

tough diplomatic battle. It is impossible to predict how long it will last or the results.

Dan Bartlett

The president's priority is to find a diplomatic solution to a problem the entire world recognizes.

Frank Carlucci

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

Blake Bailey

I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.

Why are they so single-minded? We want to solve this problem diplomatically, but everyone has to have an interest in doing this through diplomatic means.

David Garrett

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

We are seeking a diplomatic solution to this problem.

We back the EU's efforts and their proposal to exploit diplomatic ways to solve the issue.

We will respond through diplomatic channels. None of the U.S. attaches was or is engaged in inappropriate activities.

Alexander Downer

We hope that it's going to be possible to get back on to the diplomatic path before too long,

We are in support of democratic, political, diplomatic process that would implement resolutions and save the people of Iraq. We want to make that clear, and I think some of the demonstrations did not make that clear.

Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.

One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly. We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures.

Anthony Bourdain

that diplomacy is served, and order is restored to the universe.

Andrew Young

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Anne Rice

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.