Diplomatic Exchange Quotes

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.

The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States.

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

Discuss anything, argue anything, but without bitterness or hot temper.

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

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.

I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.

After speaking with community leaders, faith leaders, and voters across the District during my campaign, I came to understand that visiting Israel was necessary to obtain a full and proper perspective on our relationship with our strongest ally in the Middle East.

“Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran.” That’s telling ’em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they’d call her bluff.

By and large my relations with the US were good.

We are past the stage in our relations that you come to Washington with an empty goody bag and then you go back with a bag filled with stuff.

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

You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

Putin offered to allow American investigators to interview the 12 Russian intelligence agents just indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in exchange for allowing Russians to have access to me and those close to me.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.

The [Barack Obama] administration is sharing its knowledge, its expertise with the incoming administration. And this, to us, is a sign of encouragement, to continue the good cooperation that we have built between the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany that is in our mutual interest.

Her coming here has meant more than anything else President Nixon could have done.

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

Ambassador: In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

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

An ambassador from America! Good heavens what a sound!

We received as much aid from Rome as had been sent to us by the Sultan of Cairo

Last night the Taliban offered to release eight Westerners if the U.S. promised not to attack. The State Department declined but thanked the Taliban for the offer, saying it really felt good to laugh again.