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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks,…
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A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and…
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Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless…
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the…
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Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be…
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There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people,…
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I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just…
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Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people…
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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
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The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
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The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of…
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
— Otto von Bismarck
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The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which…
— Tony Blair
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I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's…
— Colin Powell
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I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max,…
— George W. Bush
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Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
— Jonathan Haidt
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The (Iraq) war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization,
— Harry Reid
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Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things…
— Joseph Heller
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You point your feet out too much when you walk,” Will went on. He was busy polishing an apple on his shirtfront,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.
— Jim Butcher
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There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes…
— Richelle Mead
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World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
— Richard Holbrooke
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When I'm president of the United States, we will stand with Israel. And, and if Israel is attacked, we have their back,…
— Mitt Romney
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