Embassy Quotes:

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

- Julian Assange

source: Source: www.zerohedge.com

topic: World, Situation, Embassy

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Teamwork, Letting Go, Marching Forward, Joint Efforts

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

- David Letterman

topic: Apology, Working Very Hard, Secret, Certificates, Embassy

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

source: "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

topic: Iran, Revolution, Problem, Embassy

Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.

- Jon Porter

topic: People, Effort, United States, Embassy

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Success Failure

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

- Shirley Temple

topic: Hours, Responsible, Members, Staff Members, Embassy

When our embassy is attacked in Benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Russia invades Ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When North Korea attacks Sony Pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. In other words, Mrs. Clinton, you cannot lead from behind. We must respond when we are attacked or provoked.

- Carly Fiorina

source: "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

topic: Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Embassy, Provoked

I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel room is write a letter. "My dearest Gwendolyn, I arrived by nightfall at the Embassy Suites. It will be a fortnight after my return that this letter shall arrive. Allow me to explain the curious charge at the ledger. It is because I miss thee so much, darling, I accidentally ordered Sorrority Sisters 7."

- Jim Gaffigan

topic: Funny, Writing, Thinking, Nightfall, Stationery

There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and even Europe and supported the military coup, still does. The ambassador in Honduras sent back a detailed analysis saying the coup was military, illegal, unconstitutional, and that the legitimate president was thrown out. Okay, we now know that Washington was perfectly aware of that and decided to support the military coup anyway. We should have known that at the time. The government has no right to keep that information secret.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: brightestyoungthings.com

topic: Latin, Military, Should Have, Unconstitutional, Embassy

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

- Carlos Fuentes

topic: Writing, Fighting, Opposites, Imports, Embassy

Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local menace, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). It's not clear if we can even maintain our embassy in Yemen, let alone conduct operations against AQAP. And second, because growing Iranian hegemony is a mortal threat to our allies and interests in the entire Middle East.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: War, Government, Support, Peninsulas, Embassy

Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

- Wafa Sultan

source: "For muslim who says violence destroys islam, violent threats". www.nytimes.com. March 13, 2016.

topic: Yield, People, Church, Embassy, Burning Down

Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the world were rioting because of it and burning embassies because of a cartoon. We would want to show our readers what all the fuss was about.

- Ezra Levant

topic: Holocaust, Political, Freedom Of Speech, Embassy, Rioting

We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals,

- Marty Natalegawa

source: "Iraq: Indonesia reporters missing". www.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.

topic: Taken, Two, Jordan, Amman, Embassy

Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a fetish of authenticity, then served up a shamelessly Hollywood, and wholly fictional climax, then capped the whole thing off with a coda that was essentially a tribute to his movie's authenticity, complete with side-by-side photos of the actors and their near-identical real-life counterparts. Well done, sir!

- David Edelstein

source: "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.

topic: Real, Actors, Done, Embassy, Climax

Even though the numbers are down with respect to favorability ratings, at every embassy and consular office tomorrow morning that we have, people will be lined up, and they'll all say the same thing, "We want to go to America." So we're still the leader of the world that wants to be free. We are still the inspiration of the rest of the world. And we can come back.

- Colin Powell

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Morning, Inspiration, Numbers, Embassy, Tomorrow Morning

After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the affairs of its neighbors, a policy of assassinating diplomats and of attacking embassies. Iran is responsible for a number of terrorist attacks in the Kingdom, it is responsible for smuggling explosives and drugs into Saudi Arabia. And Iran is responsible for setting up sectarian militias in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen, whose objective is to destabilize those countries.

- Adel al-Jubeir

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Country, Iran, Iraq, Sectarianism, Embassy

Hillary Clinton failed to mention that her agreement with a precipitous withdrawal and declaration of victory in 2011 helped left swaths of territory and weaponry from ISIS. She failed to mention that she described Bashar al-Assad as a positive reformer and opened an American embassy. She failed to mention a complete failure strategy in Libya, which now is enabling ISIS to move into Libya.

- Carly Fiorina

source: "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

topic: Moving, Isis, Agreement, Embassy, Assad

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

- Greg Kinnear

topic: Brother, Father, Spring, Embassy

There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.

- Judy Woodruff

topic: Country, Iran, United States, Embassy

Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the burning of embassies or the kidnapping of people designated as the enemy. Islam rejects guilt by association. Just as Muslims should not blame all Westerners for the poor taste of a cartoonist who wanted to be offensive, those horrified by the spectacle of rent-a-mob sackings of embassies in the name of Islam should not blame all Muslims for what is an outburst of fascist energy.

- Amir Taheri

topic: Islamic, Mean, Names, Sacking, Westerners

I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Determination, Men, House, Assange, Embassy

The visa thing can be an issue, if you're going to work for someone here make sure they will help you with this. However, so that you know what you need make sure you research the visa issue on your own. A 90 day visa is not a problem and I saw six month visas being offered through the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia, but nothing about one year visas or temporary residence cards. Of course you are probably aware that you need some sort of visa in advance just to gain entry into Vietnam.

- Doug Rice

source: Source: www.expatarrivals.com

topic: Years, Issues, Needs, Embassy, Cambodia

In fact, it is the dictatorship's policy that isolates the people of Burma while it reaches out to different countries every year and opens new embassies around the world. It is the dictatorship's policy that kills civilians and makes people poor. As long as the dictatorship is in power, foreign trade and investment in Burma will not benefit people. Instead, it will end up fueling the oppression in Burma.

- Zoya Phan

topic: Country, Years, Long, Different Countries, Embassy

I have always thought limousines make me dreadfully uncomfortable, just the way that suits do. When I wear a suit, I feel like ants and termites are crawling all over my body. It's really, really uncomfortable. People put themselves in a kind of prison. It's like the world of the embassies.

- Mark Helprin

source: Source: americasfuture.org

topic: People, World, Body, Crawling, Embassy

I happen to be one of those in the antiwar part of things who actually supported Bill Clinton when he sent the cruise missiles in to take out bin Laden. I had thought we had the right to use Special Forces to go in for bin Laden. He had attacked American embassies. He attacked ships. And so, I didn't see any need to coddle the Taliban.

- Robert Scheer

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Special Forces, Embassy

If the Americans do move the embassy to Jerusalem, and eventually the rest of the world follows suit, it will mark the end of Palestinian hopes for a two-state solution.

- Lawrence Davidson

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Moving, Two, Suits, Embassy

When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't stop the attacks in Boston. The marathon bombings. Where again, we knew who these individuals were. It didn't stop the Underwear Bomber, whose father walked into an embassy and warned us about this individual before he walked onto an airplane. And it's not going to stop the next attacks either. Because again, they're not public safety programmes. They're spying programmes. They are valuable for spying.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.nesta.org.uk

topic: Country, Father, Airplane, Embassy, Public Safety

Trump's election is generally bad news.... In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with his pledge to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it would be widely experienced throughout the Islamic world as a provocation.

- Richard A. Falk

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Moving, Islamic, Would Be, Embassy

I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.

- William J. Duiker

topic: Sacrifice, Government, Self, Embassy, Foreign Service

May I remind you that the bombs that were dropped by the B-2 plane on the Chinese embassy  or at least that is what we were told  were GPS bombs. And the B-2 flew in from the US.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Gps, Chinese, Bombs, Embassy

WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France, we publish from, from Germany, we publish from The Netherlands and from a number of other countries, so that the attempted squeeze on WikiLeaks is through my refugee status; and this is, this is really intolerable. [It means] that [they] are trying to get at a publishing organisation; [they] try and prevent it from publishing true information that is of intense interest to the American people and others about an election.

- Julian Assange

source: Source: www.zerohedge.com

topic: Country, Mean, Numbers, Jurisdiction, Ecuador

I made an asylum application to Ecuador in this embassy, because of the U.S. extradition case, and the result was that after a month, I was successful in my asylum application. The embassy since then has been surrounded by police: quite an expensive police operation which the British government admits to spending more than £12.6 million.

- Julian Assange

source: Source: www.zerohedge.com

topic: Successful, Government, Police, Ecuador, Embassy

The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did.

- Indira Gandhi

source: Source: sangam.org

topic: Decision, Doe, Vietnam, Embassy, Saigon

Over the last few years they have done a superb job in their fight against al-Qaida. As you may recall, our embassy in Jedda (in Saudi Arabia) was overrun some four years ago and a number of foreign workers went home because of violence against them.

- David Petraeus

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Jobs, Home, Fighting, Embassy

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.

- Timothy Garton Ash

topic: Weakness, Criminals, Reactions, Danish, Embassy

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Embassy

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.

- Carly Fiorina

source: "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

topic: Challenges, Clinton, Foreign Policy, Embassy, Assad

I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.

- Jimmy Carter

source: The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

topic: Rights, Government, People, Embassy

As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.

- Stephen Fry

source: Stephen Fry (1994). “The hippopotamus”, Random House (UK)

topic: Funny, Humor, Ribbons, Embassy

Everyone is skeptical. Only the media are not skeptical, but, then, they were also not skeptical when the administration put out the line that coordinated embassy attacks around the globe on the anniversary of 9/11 were just rowdy movie reviews. Numbers on a TV screen won't prevent millions of Americans from noticing that they're unemployed.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Numbers, Media, Lines, Embassy, Rowdy

The minister expressed appreciation for the offer, and our embassy in Uzbekistan will be following up in more detail with them

- Richard Boucher

source: "U.S. offers help with Uzbek terror" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.

topic: Appreciation, Uzbekistan, Details, Embassy

In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.

- Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

topic: Europe, Clothes, Balls, Embassy, Faraway Places

Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Funny, Humorous, Old Glory, Anti-american, Visa

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings.

- Hesham Qandil

source: "Egypt PM Hisham Qandil interview". Interview with Khaled Ezz El-Arab, www.bbc.com. September 15, 2012.

topic: Law, People, Police, Embassy

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

- Kim Young-sam

topic: Sorry, Two, Police, Beijing, Defectors

There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the Internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government, and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world. That sparked violence in various parts of the world, including violence directed against Western facilities including our embassies and consulates.

- Susan Rice

topic: Government, People, Video, Embassy

Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.

- Jeb Bush

topic: Organization, Obamacare, Catholic, Embassy

At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.

- Daniel Fried

topic: Country, Flags, Burning, Embassy, Flag Burning