Diplomat Quotes

We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

At times we expected the allies unquestioningly to follow our leads; sometimes we failed to consult them in advance before reversing policies; at other times we ignored their requests.

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

They seem not to listen to what I have to say, so I'm going to quit.

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.

If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.