Gloria Estefan Quotes

My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service.

I had to leave the Foreign Service to do the two things I joined it to do—negotiate, and make policy.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

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

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

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.

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

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

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.

I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.

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

I might be an ambassador.

I was initially assigned to the American Consulate in Aden, not as Principal Officer but as a supernumerary officer to handle Yemen affairs. We had no resident diplomatic mission in Yemen at the time. People from Aden went up to Yemen regularly.

Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

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

An ambassador from America! Good heavens what a sound!

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

I intend to ruin the Foreign Service. I mean ruin it—the old Foreign Service—and to build a new one. I’m going to do it.

I really wanted to be Ambassador to Argentina.

Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.