Barbara Mikulski Quotes

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

I might 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.

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

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

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

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.

Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.

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

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.

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

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

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.

Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.

As president of the United States, I don't bluff.

I meet with ambassadors from all countries in my role as a member of Congress, and you always have better relationships with those you actually personally get along with. That matters. So if there is chemistry between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, maybe that can bode for something.

Take a look at the way that Trump has described some of the foreign countries that we deal with - some that are allies and some that are not. China is one example. He said they were currency manipulators, but after he sat down with President Xi and had a piece of chocolate cake, he then said they were no longer currency manipulators.

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.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.