Quotes About Diplomat

For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

Dirk Moeller didn't know if he could fart his way into a major diplomatic incident. But he was ready to find out.

Pope was aware there were other ways to get more diplomatic respect than bigger guns, of course. But while other diplomatic maneuvers sometimes worked and sometimes didn't, ultimately a big damn gun always commanded respect.

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

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

Alexander VI (1492–1503) was an astute political leader, a skillful diplomat, and a careful shepherd of the church's fiscal resources. Alexander also supported missionary work in North and South America and in the Far East and by so doing anticipated extremely important developments in the later history of Christianity. In

by Julius II (1503–13). Julius won the papacy in part through bribery and in part through delicate negotiations with the Borgia family. Like Alexander, Julius was a shrewd diplomat. But even more than his predecessor, he was a man of action who, through vigorous military campaigns, greatly expanded the pope's temporal jurisdiction. Julius was also a great builder as well as a great warrior-diplomat. His

I think Shidzo Abe's proposal may be the only way to achieving our goal.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Diplomacy without politics is ultimately impotent.

Bannon said he'd tried to push John Bolton, the famously hawkish diplomat, for the job as national security advisor. Bolton was an Ailes favorite, too. "He's a bomb thrower," said Ailes. "And a strange little fucker. But you need him.

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

By writing to George III, he could test the waters and find out how badly they wanted peace.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

As he had demonstrated with the Soviets, Baker recognized that the person across the table had his or her own domestic politics to worry about and he made a point of looking for ways to satisfy those needs while still getting what he wanted.