Diplomacy quotes
29 diplomacy quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Law Abiding Citizen
- From the movie: Air Force One
“We acted too late. Only when our own national security was threatened did we act. Radek's regime murdered over 200,000 men, women, and children, and we watched it on TV. We let it happen. People were being slaughtered for over a year and we issued economic sanctions and hid behind the rhetoric of diplomacy. How dare we? The dead remember.”
- From the movie: Kiss of the Dragon
“There is a time for diplomacy and a time for action. Diplomacy is dead.”
- From the movie: Background to Danger
“In international diplomacy, the shortest distance between two points is never a straight line.”
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“A mature relationship between nations - as between individuals - can only flourish in an atmosphere of mutual respect.”
- From the movie: Thirteen Days
“If we permit the introduction of nuclear missiles to a Soviet satellite nation in our hemisphere, the diplomatic consequences will be too terrible to contemplate. The Russians are trying to show the world they can do whatever they want, wherever they want, and we're powerless to stop them. If they succeed...”
- From the movie: The Queen
“Thank you all for coming at such short notice. I think we all agree that this is an extraordinarily sensitive occasion which presents us with tremendous challenges logistically, constitutionally, practically, diplomatically, and procedurally.”
- From the movie: War Dogs
“- Efraim Diveroli: Jordanian customs seized our Berettas.
- David Packouz: What? Why?
- Efraim Diveroli: I don't fucking know, David! I dropped out of high school before they covered international diplomacy!” - From the movie: The Constant Gardener
“- Justin Quayle: Well, diplomats have to go where they're sent.
- Tessa Quayle: So do labradors.” - From the movie: American Dreamz
“I'm a diplomat! I failed flight school!”
- From the movie: The Dish
- Al Burnett: The Ambassador's coming. Space nut. Knows everything about Apollo 11.
- Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: Does he know where it is? - From the movie: Air Bud: Golden Receiver
- Popov: We're Russians! We demand you take us to the Russian imbecile!
- Natalya: It's "Embassy", imbecile! - From the movie: Lethal Weapon 2
“- Arjen Rudd: Now we do have a serious diplomatic situation here, which I will be taking up with your state department first thing in the morning.
- Martin Riggs: Whoa, you got me quaking in my boots, but I'm still gonna bring you down.
- Arjen Rudd: My dear officer, you could not even give me a parking ticket! Who is the dickhead now, eh?” - From the movie: Thirteen Days
“Your first step sir, will be to demand that the Soviet withdraw the missiles within 12 to 24 hours. They will refuse. When they do you will order the strikes, followed by the invasion. They will resist and be overrun. They will retaliate against another target somewhere else in the world, most likely Berlin. We will honor our treaty commitments...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Thirteen Days
“Gentlemen, for the last fifteen years, I've fought at this table alongside your predecessors in the struggle against the Soviet. Now I do not wish to seem melodramatic, but I do wish to impress upon you a lesson I learned with bitter tears and great sacrifice. The Soviets understands only one language: action. Respects only one word: force.”
- From the movie: The Astronaut's Wife
“- Spencer Armacost: I said I didn't give a big hairy rat's ass and if he ever called me again I would track him down, rouse him from his bunk, pull his pants round his ankles and spank him with a coathanger right there in front of his wife and children!
- Jillian Armacost: Wanna tell me what you really said to the president?
- Spencer Armacost:...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Birth Of A Nation
“I shall deal with them as though they had never been away.”
“- Anakin Skywalker: You call this a diplomatic solution?
- Padmé: No, I call it aggressive negotiations.”- From the movie: Canadian Bacon
- Roy Boy: I want to call the American embassy!
- Sheriff Bud Boomer: All I said was "Canadian beer sucks!”. - From the movie: The Constant Gardener
- From the movie: Thirteen Days
“This is language. A new vocabulary, the likes of which the world has never seen! This is President Kennedy communicating with Secretary Khrushchev!”
- From the movie: Whoops Apocalypse
“Santa Maya must be liberated by any means necessary. Even diplomacy if it should come to it.”
- From the movie: Anna and the King
“- King Mongkut: l have decided to give self anniversary dinner and invite important English nobles and diplomats.
- Anna Leonowens: l don't understand.
- King Mongkut: French lndochina grows stronger and more aggressive. But if l improve our foreign intercourse with your queen's special envoy, French will think three times before trying to...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Thirteen Days
“- Robert F. Kennedy: At this moment the president is accepting the terms of Secretary Khrushchev's letter of Friday night: if the Soviet Union halts construction immediately, removes the missiles, and submits to UN inspection, the United States will pledge to never invade Cuba, or aid others in that enterprise.
- Anotoly Dobrinyn: If your...” (continue)(continue reading)
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