Quotes About Diplomat

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Putin has the ability to advance his interests in many different ways. Sometimes tactical diplomacy can help.

For me, bringing the American president closer to the people of Israel is a life goal.

Our fundamental goal in getting involved in Bosnia in the summer of 1995 was to end the war. Richard Holbrooke's fundamental goal was to negotiate a peace: a peace that was sustaining and self-sustaining over the long term.

I was bashing Israel in the past because nobody else was exposing its true record. Many people are doing it now, so I switched hats from a critic of Israel to a diplomat who wants to resolve the conflict. I have not changed, but I think the spectrum has moved.

Greene had disclosed to a sympathetic American diplomat in Brussels that while at Oxford he had been a member of the Communist Party for a period. He then repeated the disclosure to a Time magazine reporter, and a 'plastic curtain fell'. To enter the country he required the special permission of the Attorney General, a process taking three weeks, and his visits were limited to four weeks.1

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

first international crisis.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home

Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

Publicly, I've never talked about Argentina.

Before she landed, Ms Clinton publicly downplayed the importance of human rights. At a press conference ahead of leaving, she beamingly implored the Chinese government to keep buying US debt, like a travelling saleswoman hawking a bill of goods.

too many facts hamper a diplomat, especially an honest one." "I'm not especially honest." "But you have no talent for dishonesty, so your refuge must be ignorance and stubbornness. You have the latter; try to preserve the former.

Best to strip all statements of real content, this was a basic law of diplomacy.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

The difference between a Diplomat and a Husband is that the Diplomat remembers the birthday of a woman but doesn't remember her age, while the Husband remembers his wife's age but forgets her birthday. Be a Diplomatic Husband! Don't ever forget your Wife's Birthday, and never let her cross that evergreen age of timeless & tantalizing twenty-five.

I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran.

It might seem that being a genius is a golden ticket to a life of glamorous soirees with the intellectual elite, champagne flute in hand, arm candy at your side, surrounded by a throng of smiling sycophants. But you might be confusing this scene with the lifestyle of a diplomat

Before anything else, we have to say that President Jimmy Carter was a stand-up guy who had the misfortune of having a less than qualified interpreter with him. When Carter, on a visit to Poland, made a speech saying he wanted to know their people's "desires for the future," his interpreter wrongly said that President Carter desired Poland sexually.