Diplomatic Quote by Elliott Abrams Download Open image “Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?” — Elliott Abrams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diplomatic Secret Why
In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge. — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I want a world without war. War never works it just kills. I want my children to never have to have a close contact… — Ana Martin Copy Share Image
Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the… — Mitchell Reiss Copy Share Image
Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
I worry about the lack of experience that Rex Tillerson has had on the diplomatic front and, frankly, I think that's true for many… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
