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April 6
“The problem is that you Americans think every problem has a solution.”--One member of Congress quoting former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt as saying; image fromVIDEOSStreet Art of the Arab World...
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April 7
“A large part of a diplomatic mission’s work does not involve or require elaborate secrecy. Diplomacy, after all, is not a conspiracy. The best diplomacy is the one that involves the fewest, not the...
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April 8-9
"As amazing and inspiring as Madeleine Albright has been as a diplomat, Miramax is unlikely to spend $100 million to chronicle her life."--Michael Duffin, a graduate student concluding a Master's...
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April 10-11
"There is the silence of mystery evoking awe, the silence of attention or respect, the silence of desolation, the silence of what is forgotten, the silence of what is concealed: silence good, bad, and...
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April 12
"On Friday night, May 27 [2011], a photograph of a man’s torso wearing gray boxer briefs and an obvious erection appeared on Weiner’s official Twitter account."--Jonathan Van Meter, "Anthony Weiner and...
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April 13
"The adversary is no longer homogeneous, one’s own people may be puzzled and divided."--Michael Howard, "Narratives of war," The Times Literary SupplementVIDEOSNorth Korea threatens to strike Colorado...
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April 14
Image from“She was smiling all the time.”--Attorney Sam Hopkins, referring to murdered Foreign Service Public Diplomacy officer Anne Smedinghoff, who, while a student at Johns Hopkins University in...
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April 15-16
"Everything I know about social media marketing I learned doing sex work."--Sex worker Kitty Stryker tells CNNMoney; via PVB; image from entryVIDEOSSen. Rubio: Beyonce’s trip to Cuba is ‘propaganda’ -...
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April 17
"[T]he C.I.A. — which once sold golf shirts with Predator logos in its gift shop."--New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYTara Sonenshine on Public Diplomacy, Voice of...
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April 18-20
“Audiences are like dogs — they can smell what’s underneath the material, and that’s something you can’t plan or fake." --Comedian Sarah Silverman; image fromBOOK REVIEWEmpire of Ideas: The Origins of...
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April 21
“After all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in masquerade.”--Lord Byron, cited in John Hargrave, Words Win Wars (1940), p. 37. Above image from; online quotation atPUBLIC DIPLOMACYOverseas Private...
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April 22
"Lamenting that 'our once blossoming commercial cities are no longer flourishing,' he [Karl Marx] declared that the spread of Communist ideas would 'defeat our intelligence, conquer our sentiments,' an...
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April 23
"Congress has contracted with various movie theaters around the nation to host the House and Senate."--Rowan Scarborough, "Congress has new shelter in case of attack," The Washington Times, noting that...
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April 24
“I’m sorry, but the guest of honor has requested that you not be admitted to the dinner.”--A publicity person, at a dinner honoring relatively new director of Radio Liberty’s Russian service Masha...
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April 25-27
"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."-- George W. Bush; image from, with caption: George W. Bush...
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April 28
“I get it -- these days I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be."--President Barack Obama, joking at the White House Correspondents' Assn....
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April 29-May 6
"The best propaganda is not propaganda."--Professor Joseph S. Nye; image fromVIDEOI Don’t Get Social Media, Thai Edition - Peter Van Buren, We Meant Well: "So it was recently new year in Thailand,...
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May 7
"[A]s a student of public diplomacy, I often wonder if PD is worth it at all."--Indian PD blogger Madhurjya Kotoky; image fromTRY FASHION DIPLOMACY INSTEAD"I’m Lisa Liberatore. This blog [Fashion...
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May 8
"'Public Diplomacy' is propaganda."--OldUncleTom, commenting on the article, "State Department public diplomacy post still unfilled," Washington Post "'Public Diplomacy', a PR version of 'foreign...
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May 9
"[I]t costs State [Department] between $105,000 to $480,000 for each employee it trains in a foreign language, the IG [Inspector General] said."--John Solomon,washingtonguardian.com; image...
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