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February 1
"We don’t need to explain."--Israel's Director-general for public diplomacy Gideon Meir; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYMemo to Washington: Foreign Policy Begins Abroad - Nader Mousavizadeh, New York Times:...
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February 2
"Лентрош [Ленин, Троцкий, Шаумян]Lentrosh [Lenin, Trotskii, Shaumian]"--One of the first names given to Soviet children; via LZ on Facebook; image fromJohn Kerry Sworn In - U.S. Department of State:...
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February 3-6
“We’re not in the same class as the Palestinians."--Yosef Kuperwasser [link is by subscription], the director general of Israel's Strategic Affairs Ministry, which tracks anti-Israel incitement in the...
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February 7-9
"Every American citizen has the right to know when the government thinks it has a right to kill them."--Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., regarding the drone program; image fromROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONWilson Center...
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February 10
"The best propaganda is no propaganda." --An Asian analyst of cultural diplomacy; cited in the below mentioned, recently published Robert Sterling Clark Foundation report, "Public and Private Cultural...
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February 11-13
"The public diplomacy FSO [Foreign Service officer] comes next to the ambassador."--"Job Responsibilities Of A Foreign Service Officer," foreignservice"se non è vero, è ben trovato."--From; image...
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February 14
"Patrick Henry was ... convinced that the power over the various state militias given the federal government in the new Constitution could be used to strip the slave states of their slave-patrol...
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February 15
“Propaganda should not be obvious; propaganda should be hidden — then and only then can it be effective ... We need to make it clear to students that when they leave this building, they are going to go...
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February 16
“Imagine the horror and terror. People would have to actually have conversations in person.”--Micho Rutare, the director and co-writer of the 2010 movie “Meteor Apocalypse,” who imagined a satire in...
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February 17
“How could they tell?”--What author Dorothy Parker (see) reportedly asked when President Calvin Coolidge's death was announced; Coolidge image fromVIDEOSoviet TV advertisements from the 1970s and 1980s...
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February 18-19
"Propaganda only becomes malevolent when you don't have the power to critique back."--Ian Cooke, a British Library curator of an upcoming exhibition on propaganda; image fromVIDEOSThe Accidental State...
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February 20-21
“No one’s going to take my gun — no one’s going to take anyone’s gun.”--Vice President Joe Biden, who owns two shotguns; Biden image fromEVENTS(a) Public Diplomacy and Social Media in Latin America -...
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February 20-21
“No one’s going to take my gun — no one’s going to take anyone’s gun.”--Vice President Joe Biden, who owns two shotguns; Biden image fromEVENTS(a) Public Diplomacy and Social Media in Latin America -...
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February 22
"VOA has an identity problem from which it may never ascend."--U.S. International Broadcasting commentator Kim Andrew Elliott; image fromVIDEOS(a) The trailer for the State Department funded film...
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February 23
"Chiariamo: la public diplomacy consiste principalmente questo, e gli effetti sono stati positivi, dato il numero di domande che i due hanno ricevuto durante l'ora di intervento. E poi, diciamocelo,...
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February 24
"1 Democracy Street"--French actor Gerard Depardieu's new permanent Russian Federation address in Saransk, a city of 300,000 about 640 kilometers (400 miles) east of Moscow; image fromBOOK...
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February 25-26
"Good luck @BenAffleck and #Argo at the Oscars. Nice seeing @StateDept & our Foreign Service on the big screen.-JK"--Secretary of State John Kerry on Twitter; image from, with caption: good luck...
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February 27
"We just finished one of those wonderful French lunches that have been drawing Americans to Paris for centuries."--Secretary of State John Kerry, "Secretary's Remarks: Remarks With French Foreign...
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February 28
"At a Kremlin reception, Mr. Cliburn was bearhugged by Khrushchev. 'Why are you so tall?' Khrushchev asked. 'Because I am from Texas,' Mr. Cliburn answered."Anthony Tommasini, "Van Cliburn, Cold War...
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March 1-2
ABBREVIATED EDITION"Et maintenant je parle en anglais parce qu'autrement on me laisse pas rentrer chez moi." --Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking at a press conference in Paris"Finally, something...
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