Pepe Eliaschev Quotes

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.

You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world - monarchies, kingdoms, large powers - we want to respect all differences and have our relationships based on mutual respect.

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

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a burden on the then Consul, so an additional officer was named to the American Consulate at Aden to handle Yemeni affairs. I was designated for that task.

I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Having elected a government, we will be best advised to let it govern and to let it speak for us as it will in the councils of the nations.

The Secretary of State has always stood as much alone as the historian. Required to look far ahead and around him, he measures forces unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile since Congress first sat.

I think the best country is one in which rich Jews feel like living.

One of the reasons we don't have a serious foreign policy is that we pay too much attention to public opinion.

When the President picks up the phone and calls the Prime Minister, what does it mean to be an ambassador?

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

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

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.