Quotes About Diplomat

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

In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist Party agenda, I can assure you that in practical terms, we have always been trying to be pragmatic.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private.

Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy, until you can find a rock.

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It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.

While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.

I'd like to build stable relationships with neighboring countries including China and Russia.

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.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

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Serrão carefully cultivated Ternate's small ruling class, especially its king, and tried to promote trade between Ternate and Portugal

persuaded Charles V of rival Spain to back the project.

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.

I have been with President Trump as he has spoken with leaders from countries on six continents, including Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom and many more.

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.

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.

Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century.

Japan is prepared to break the shell of mutual distrust with North Korea and get off to a new start.

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.

Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, " … and speak all the good I know of everybody.