Quotes About Diplomat

Diplomacy is not merely talking somebody into something; it's talking to somebody from a position of strength. You put your power on the table to open up the conversation; that's diplomacy.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

One of my American heroes is the great former U.S. diplomat George Kennan.

Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.

Often, I must speak otherwise than I think. That is called diplomacy.

Often I must speak otherwise than I think," he said. "This is called diplomacy.

When I was asked to manage some issues in Europe for the government, I didn't go to Parliament and just make a great speech and impress them. Instead, I will go down and discuss with those people about certain issues that we don't agree, and over a glass of wine we talk about it and they say 'okay, let's forget it.'

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the German ambassador to Washington before 1933, the only German diplomat to resign on the Nazi accession to power.

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

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

Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.

Henry Kissinger spent years negotiating the terms of our surrender there and ended up with a deal that he could have gotten on the first day he went to work in the Nixon White House - the Americans leave and North Vietnam wins.

The mere fact that I'm former head of state and former under-secretary in the U.N. system, it means that I can get in touch with anybody in the world, in theory.

There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

Duveen instantly wrote his ten-thousand-pound purchase off as a total loss, but the pictures he acquired from the diplomat's friends returned him a profit many times as large as his investment.

Pakistan is running away from talks which will be held only when we get reply. Time available is only tonight.

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a glade in the woods with a few close friends and get it done?" Halt hesitated. "Well, no...of course not." As a matter of fact, that was exactly what he had thought. A simple ceremony, a few friends, some food and drink and then he and Pauline would be a couple. But he felt that it might not be wise to admit that right now.

And you must be the ambassador." "Charlotte Sanchez, UFP Diplomatic Service. Pleased." "Why?" Flyter said innocently. Without missing a beat, Sanchez said "Because meeting new individuals gives me great intellectual pleasure. That's why I became a diplomat." "Oh, good! There are almost fourteen thousand of us, you know. We should be able to make you really, really happy.

Vincent Katherinessen, the Old Earth Colonial Coalition's velvet-gloved iron hand, for too field-effective to the categorized as a mere diplomatic envoy no matter how his passport was coded.

I was really super into science an not at all in to politics. I think it was a reaction against the fact my dad was a diplomat. I wanted to do something that was totally different. I fell in love with science.

One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.