Quotes About Diplomat

I went to Pakistan; I engaged in peace. If a hand extended is not shaken, what are you supposed to do?

I'd be happy if, during my mandate, the Palestinian state existed.

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

When PM goes for a foreign visit, he represents a country and not the party.

Throughout his amazing life, my father played important roles in shaping U.S. policy towards China.

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

Where on earth do you get a rose in Elsinore in the middle of winter?" "Don't you want it?" She took the flower from him, kissed his cheek. No bristles. No beard. A clean-shaven man with a kind and amiable face. Scheming. She didn't doubt it. But he was a diplomat by training. It was only to be expected. And if he'd lacked those skills perhaps neither of them would have managed Old Hamlet's death, the marriage, the succession so easily.

This craggy political landscape was the kind of terrain in which Kissinger moved with the deftness of an Indian scout.

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.

After years of failure, I do think that President Trump has shown a lot of wisdom in reaching out his hand to the North Korean leader and to suggest to them that there might be a different future for the North Korean people.

A diplomatic statement ... is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it.

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What happens if you need a diplomat who can also practice philosophy fight with a lightsaber and levitate small objects Who else are you going to call but us Mara

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

As governor general of the Philippines, Taft had welcomed every political group at Malacañan Palace, making it "a rule never to pay any attention to personal squabbles and differences.

I'm a diplomat, I make myself agreeable to some of the most vile people on earth

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.