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Diplomat Inspirational Quotes (16654)

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Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
Hu Shih
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In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.
Leon Trotsky
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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
Colin Powell
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Daniel Webster
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George Lowe was the one who opened the mail, and George started laughing uproariously and I looked up at him in astonishment and said, What's so funny? And he said, You've been given a title, and I said, Ha, ha, big joke. I didn't believe him but, sure enough, in this letter it indicated that the Queen had given me a title.
Edmund Hillary
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[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.
Shirley Temple
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A long life is a life well spent.
Leonardo da Vinci
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It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light and energy.
John Mott
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Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.
Susan Rice
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Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.
George H. W. Bush
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I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.
Hillary Clinton
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I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill, nor to create suffering in a grasping search for selfish objectives, but to help alleviate the plight of the needy to aim at justice and freedom for the individual.
Poul Hartling
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Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.
Thomas Jefferson
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I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
Vernon A. Walters
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
Vernon A. Walters
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
Vernon A. Walters
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I worry about international terror as a method for bringing about political change or sociological change in different countries. And this concerns me because our homeland is not - we see now, is not immune from this kind of dastardly attack. And so I worry about that a lot.
George H. W. Bush
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I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.
Pierre Beaumarchais
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Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
Donald Rumsfeld
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It does happen to be a historical fact that my husband served as president for eight years. And there's a lot that happened which helped the American people during those eight years. I want an economy that creates more jobs. And that's a lot of jobs. I want an economy that gets back to raising incomes for everybody.
Hillary Clinton
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Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.
Jimmy Carter
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The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.
Anna Lindh
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My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.
Hillary Clinton
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