Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by David K. E. Bruce

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Last updated on November 17, 2024.

David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce was an American diplomat, intelligence officer and politician. He served as ambassador to France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United Kingdom, the only American to be all three.

American - Diplomat | February 12, 1898 - December 5, 1977

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Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.

David K. E. Bruce

I think, like many others, I realized that only the massive introduction of American support in one form or another, could possibly bring about a rehabilitation of the economies of those countries within a reasonable time.

David K. E. Bruce

There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.

David K. E. Bruce

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

David K. E. Bruce

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.

David K. E. Bruce

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.

David K. E. Bruce

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.

David K. E. Bruce

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by David K. E. Bruce

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