#ambassador

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. ↗

— Henry Wotton

#ambassador #benefit #country #his #honest

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#arabian #country #i #kill #rational

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras. ↗

— John Negroponte

#ambassador #career #diplomat #during #early

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#anything #briefing #dreadfully #function #i

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#ambassador #because #china #come #i

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#ambassador #another #arrived #back #baghdad

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#angeles #availability #coconut #committed #dinner

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

— Eleanor Mondale

#bahamas #i #like

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part. ↗

— Charles Spalding

#action #ambassador #else #endless #everyone

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#ambassador #any #compete #dependent #far