Quotes of: Embassy Keyword

Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.

The Embassy House

In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.

Rory Stewart

Jon Swain: If the going gets rough, I heard our best bet's the French embassy. Sydney Schanberg: Who told you that? Jon Swain: [faint chuckle] The British embassy.

The Killing Fields

Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only...

Kathleen Troia McFarland

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 an...

One Man Caravan

The Church acts as a sort of embassy for the government of the King. It is an outpost of the Kingdom of God surrounded by the kingdom of darkness. Just as an embassy is meant to showcase the life of a nation to the surrounding people, so the Church i...

What is the Mission of the Church?: Making sense of social justice, Shalom and the Great Commission

John Chambers: Talk to me. Tony Mendez: It's an exfil. John Chambers: From where? Tony Mendez: The worst place you can think of. John Chambers: Universal City. [Tony hands John an issue of 'Time' magazine, with illustrations of the Iranian hostages o...

Argo

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

Shirley Temple

Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had.

Richard Lugar

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

Lawrence Eagleburger

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.

Harry Shearer

Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.

Elliott Abrams

Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters.

Elliott Abrams

The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.

Steven Holl

This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

Tariq Ramadan

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

Noam Chomsky

The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity.

Elliott Abrams

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

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