Diplomat Quotes: Words of Wisdom from Eminent Diplomats (Page 4)

"What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

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