Quotes About Diplomats

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.

At the United Nations, that's the number one comment I get is they're just so happy to see the United States lead again.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

I call on Russia and the United States of America, the cosponsors of the peace conference, to help the peace process take bigger steps by contributing to the process and helping to overcome all obstacles.

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.

The language of any joint statement between two countries is mulled over many times before it becomes final.

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

The poor soldiers always do their duty in the most brilliant manner; but as soon as matters come again into the hands of politicians and diplomats, everything is again spoiled and confused.

You decide to stop using the word "anachronism" when a seventeenth-century carriage drives through the gates of Buckingham Palace carrying twentieth-century Russian or African diplomats to be welcomed by a queen. "Anachronism" implies something long dead, and nothing is dead here. History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

questions which weren't solved by diplomats, would be less solved with powder and blood.

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about it. They find other ways to work it out.

In response to Russia's election hacking, the U.S. expelled not just one, but 35 spies posing as diplomats - the strongest response ever to a cyberattack against the U.S.

American diplomats meet with formal government officials, we meet with opposition protesters, not just in Hong Kong or China. This literally happens in every single country in which an American embassy is present.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Diagnosticians act in many ways like politicians who may overtly take their differences very seriously but are always willing to shake hands in a smoke-filled room

courts may exercise jurisdiction: cases between states; cases between a state and citizens of another state, or between citizens of different states; "controversies to which the United States shall be a party"; admiralty and maritime disputes; cases involving ambassadors and other foreign diplomats; and cases between a state or its citizens and the government or residents of a foreign state.

For the Supreme Court specifically, Article III makes a distinction between "original" and "appellate" jurisdiction—between the Supreme Court as a court of first resort for cases involving states or foreign diplomats, and the Court as the recipient of appeals from lower courts in all other cases.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

I spent eight years at the U.N., so I understand that U.S. ambassadors have a lot of issues to cover.