Diplomatic Status Quotes

I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.

I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane... received by the ambassador, by the president of the United States. I should be the most honored man in your country.

I am not Mr. Chairman. I am His Excellency, the President of Palestine.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

I always envied them, the owners of the cars with the white plates who can be seen around Jerusalem. I always wanted to be one of them. We call them U.N., even though U.N. are generally foreign correspondents with leased cars and yellow plates.

Ambassadors form an exception to the general case of foreigners resident in the country, and they are exempted absolutely from all allegiance, and from all responsibility to the laws of the country to which they are deputed …. A foreign minister and those strictly belonging to the embassy are in general exempt from the criminal jurisdiction of the country to which they go

A country which cannot afford Ambassadors' wages should be ashamed to have Ambassadors.

The humiliating idea that we just slide from the top E.U. table to third country is unthinkable.

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

It is important to remember that I am not in the G-8; I am just an invited guest.