Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Quotes

I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country.

I'm an ambassador 24 hours a day.

What I do miss is foreign travel, because there really is no substitute for showing up somewhere and representing the United States.

I believe that my experience as an HBO executive responsible for global marketing and communications should serve our country well as we tell America's story in Spain and Andorra.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

I should have sent him somewhere as an ambassador. The world’s a big place.

An ambassador also serves as an emblem of the country that appoints him.

I'm not the ambassador of Japan or Japanese culture.

I'm honored to serve as ambassador for Screamfest.

I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn.

I feel an enormous responsibility to bridge the gap between England and America, and be a sort of very quiet ambassador for my country to try to sort of do a "hands across the water" thing where they understand England and English people understand Americans. I adore America.

Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.

Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.

The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.

I might be an ambassador.