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I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room.

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.

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

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

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.

Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

I'm an ambassador 24 hours a day.