Clive Sinclair Quotes

An ambassador also serves as an emblem of the country that appoints him.

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.

Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.

The job of a diplomat is to be the eyes and the ears of the country he or she is representing.

Ambassadors are the eyes and ears of states.

I think the job of the first single is kind of like being a diplomat for a country.

It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.

I might be an ambassador.

I shall have to depend upon you for taking care of these matters of foreign affairs, of which I know so little, and with which I reckon you are familiar.

The first thing a diplomat has to do is understand the domestic politics of foreign states.

We will definitely not allow the killing of our Iraqi Ambassador to deny us the right to have an ambassador.

Over the last 40 years, more U. S. ambassadors than generals have been killed in the line of duty. But unlike this country's military, the U. S. Foreign Service is maligned, undercut and underutilized.

If we start seeing one ambassador I don’t know how we’re going to avoid seeing the other 113 …. I don’t see what mileage we get in seeing 80 African ambassadors.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazils; from Turk or Christian; from black or white; from the dey of Algiers or the bey of Tunis; from the devil himself, if he wore a crown, we should receive a minister.

Officials are being appointed by us to conduct foreign affairs.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

Susan Rice, she's distant. She is the UN ambassador, got nothing to do with Benghazi, not in the State Department. She has no representation at the consulate or at Benghazi, send her out there, and so Brian Williams said, "Why send you?".

Prince Felipe is the best ambassador for Spain: I have already told Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, minister of foreign affairs, that the prince should travel to the U.S. more often.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.