Diplomatic Role Quotes

We are coming to realise that foreign operations in today's world call for a total diplomacy ... Ambassadors can no longer be content with wining and dining, reporting, analysing and cautiously predicting.

I thought Colin Powell did a fine job as secretary of state.

The Secretary of State exists only to recognize the existence of a world which Congress would rather ignore ... Since the first day the Senate existed, it has always intrigued against the Secretary of State ...

American soldiers and marines are good diplomats in their own right.

I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments.

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

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

At some point, I stumbled across my two main protagonists: William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered professor of history picked by Roosevelt to be America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany, and Dodd's comely and rather wild daughter, Martha, who at first was enthralled with the so-called Nazi revolution.

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

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Personally, I think Mitt Romney would be a great secretary of state.

Next to President of the United States, Ambassador to Ireland is surely one of the best jobs an Irish American can hold.

I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

The Chinese want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to have 'developing nation' status and are out there as one of the biggest borrowers on the planet from the World Bank while simultaneously trying to play the part of a grown up on the world stage.

I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.

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

[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has played a role.

I feel an enormous responsibility to bridge the gap between England and America, and be a sort of very quiet ambassador for my country to try to sort of do a "hands across the water" thing where they understand England and English people understand Americans. I adore America.

I believe that my experience as an HBO executive responsible for global marketing and communications should serve our country well as we tell America's story in Spain and Andorra.

I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no role in helping a political solution.

Of course, when Secretary-General is objective, he can play an important role in dealing with different officials in the United Nations in order to bring the policies of the different states - mainly Russia and the United States - toward more cooperation and more stability regarding Syria.