My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service.
My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
I've been involved in and out of the U.N. for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!
I had to leave the Foreign Service to do the two things I joined it to do—negotiate, and make policy.
I was considered the luckiest of all the female gypsies since I landed the job as social secretary to Ambassador and Mrs. David Bruce at the American Embassy.
I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.
It will not surprise me if I turn out to by the last Minister from the United States to the British Court, and that will certainly be fame if it be not honor.
The U. S. and England were at the brink of war:
While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.
I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
The [Donald] Trump folks chose not to keep [Dan Fried] on. He was actually - I said he was actually the third-most senior diplomat in the foreign service.
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
[Dan Fried] served under President [Barack] Obama and under President George W. Bush before that and under President [Bill] Clinton before that and under President George H.W. Bush before that and under [Ronald] Reagan before that and under [Jim] Carter before that. He has been there a long time.
I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.
I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and grandmother... and diplomatic services for the United States government.
I really wanted to be Ambassador to Argentina.
There is something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
Having been raised overseas, I wanted to become a diplomat. But the State Department thought I was too 'liberal' to be happy with that job.
The youth thing never really, from my vantage point, slowed me down. I think the harder audience for me to gain acceptance from was the career diplomatic corps that worked with and for me in the Africa Bureau.
I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
I have been a diplomat for 12 years but have never been posted abroad because I am a woman.
