Quotes About Diplomat

What I do miss is foreign travel, because there really is no substitute for showing up somewhere and representing the United States.

A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.

A diplomat, according to Alex Dreier, is "anyone who thinks twice before saying nothing.

establishing fixed racial hierarchies, such as the German composer Richard Wagner in Judaism in Music (1850) and the French diplomat Arthur de Gobineau in Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853–1855).

That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

I always wanted to be an ambassador.

You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince.

According to the account of a British diplomat, Liaquat had to respond seriously to a California businessman who asked him at a luncheon 'whether the blank space between the two parts of Pakistan as shown on the menu card was Africa'.1

One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself into someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles.

I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

Kissinger was surely one of the very few statesmen to try to do something positive to break the log jam of the Cold War; to try to end the war in Vietnam; to bring a halt to the cycle of war in the Middle East.

People working for the autocrat believe they are working for someone. Those reporting to the diplomat believe they are working zoit/i someone.

Lindbergh can deal with Hitler, they said, Hitler respects him because he's Lindbergh. Mussolini and Hirohito respect him because he's Lindbergh.

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.

A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.

Diplomacy is to do and say, The nastiest thing in the nicest way.

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

Diplomasi adalah mengatakan hal yang paling buruk dengan cara yang paling manis.

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

Leonid Krasin, a factory director who became one of Lenin's most persuasive diplomats and ruthless requisitioners, recorded: Lenin has become quite insane and if anyone has influence over him it is only "Comrade Feliks" , an even greater fanatic and, in essence, a cunning piece of work who scares Lenin with counterrevolution and the idea that this will sweep us all away, him first. And Lenin, I am finally convinced, is very much a coward, trembling for his own skin.

I TELL MY STUDENTS THAT THE FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE OF FOREIGN policy is elementary: to convince other countries to do what we would like them to do.

She was negotiating with Elizabeth at the level of queen to queen through her ambassador

But when Christopher mentioned that he and Talbott had been trying to package post-Cold War policy in a single phrase, Kennan said they shouldn't. Containment had been a misleading oversimplification; strategy could not be made to fit a bumper sticker. The president laughed when Talbott told him what had happened: that's why Kennan's a great diplomat and scholar but not a politician.