Quotes About Public Diplomacy

#1. Our nation must engage with the rest of the world. But to be successful, we must listen. Our interaction with the world must be a conversation, not a monologue ... these exchanges are a strategic pillar of our nation's public diplomacy.

Dina Powell

#2. I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.

John Poindexter

#3. Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

Bruno Latour

#4. I went to a private all-girls school where I didn't feel I fit in.

Gia Coppola

#5. What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.

John Prendergast

#6. The mentality of being the super power globally or regionally has contributed strongly to the development of very negative aspects to the political cohabitation the countries of the region than proving the capability of producing solutions that would meet the needs of the public.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#7. People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#9. Faith looks to God, hopes in God, and believes in His promises, regardless of our actual circumstances.

Wendy Blight

#10. Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

Alvin Adams

#11. Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

Cynthia P. Schneider

#12. A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate.

Nancy Snow

#13. Everybody is always touting the division between religion and science ... That division is based on a false premise. It simply doesn't exist. The first sciences developed from a desire to prove the existence of God. In that sense, science and religion have been hand in hand from the very beginning.

A.J. Kazinski

#14. In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.

Robert Zemeckis

#15. I don't understand,' said Despereaux.
'And you will not understand until you lose what you love ...

Kate DiCamillo

#16. There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

Timothy Noah

#17. To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.

Peter Cundill

#18. By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Ray Kurzweil

#19. I close my eyes, trying to decipher how it feels.

Emery Lord

#20. Oh, my God. They were going to sleep together, with no sleeping involved.

Carolyn Jewel