Top 1200 Foreign Service Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

Everybody's excited about the new service economy, even though there is no actual service as near as I can tell.

American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.

If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

I think there is a failure in foreign policy. And you have to acknowledge that under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton was the architect of that foreign policy. Whether it was malevolent or not, I don't know.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.

It's oftentimes the case that relief workers, people who've been involved in development projects and foreign assistance, have a real understanding of foreign cultures that the military desperately needs if we're going to be able to work effectively.

It's simply not true that Donald Trump has no experience in foreign affairs. Hell, two of his foreign affairs resulted in marriages!

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.

U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something is legal doesn't make it right. I'm not American; I don't really care about what data is being collected about American citizens. I'm worried about us, the foreigners.

In my opinion, being able to do some form of service is a gift. The one that provides the service is the greatest beneficiary - I will attest to it.

I don't think, Donald Trump doesn't think, no one thinks that a foreign entity should be interfering with a foreign election.

This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?

Small service is true service, while it lasts.

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.

I think my service is better than my food... I focus so much on the service.

Argentina needs to have a different foreign policy. Because of a lack of foreign policy, investments haven't been what they should be.

Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.

The best form of customer service is self service. Constantly empower customers to get their own answers themselves.

Broadband Internet access service is inherently an interstate service, and that is not a determination that just the FCC has made.

Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

After [Dan Fried] was initially hired into the Foreign Service in 1977, five subsequent presidents of both parties thought it would be a good idea to keep him on. That his deep understanding, his knowledge of all the players and so many of the secrets it would make him an indispensable asset, particularly when it comes to dealing with Russia.

You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.

Look, I think that when we started Virgin Atlantic 30 years ago, we had one 747 competing with the airlines that had an average of 300 planes each. Every single one of those have gone bankrupt because they didn't have customer service. They had might, but they didn't have customer service, so customer service is everything in the end.

I like to say I bring the perspective of a kid from Bowmanville... but I understand military service and uniformed service.

We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.

If you want to sell a service, you have to be the first to believe that the service has value.

Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military.