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Quotes About Diplomat

A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy.
~ Geoffrey Household
My father was a diplomat and served as Pakistan's ambassador to 14 countries. I was born in London and grew up there and studied and lived in a hostel throughout in London and became a barrister.
~ Adnan Sami
Legation Quarter. But if there is, it would be very
~ John Wilcox
The title of the elder branch falling at length to him, he obtained an important embassy, which served as an excuse for hastening the marriage
~ John William Polidori
Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken.
~ Colin Powell
I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
~ David Cunliffe
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.
~ Paul Harvey
Diplomacy is essential if we are to find peaceful resolutions in times of tension.
~ Ed Davey
Soviet diplomat Vyacheslav Molotov is thought to be the only man to ever shake hands with Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Roosevelt, and Churchill and is also the inspiration behind the term Molotov cocktail.
~ Scott Matthews
Vyacheslav Molotov
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. (1954)
~ Enlai Zhou
I tend to agree with the guy who said diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
~ Eric Thomson
Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.
~ Gary Cherone
Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
~ Eduard Shevardnadze
I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
~ Hugo Chavez
I can only say that I have good personal relations with all secretaries of state with whom I have a chance to work.
~ Sergei Lavrov
We are past the stage in our relations that you come to Washington with an empty goody bag and then you go back with a bag filled with stuff.
~ Kersti Kaljulaid
If Narendra Modi can hug Nawaz Sharif then what is wrong in Hardik Patel meeting me?
~ Uddhav Thackeray
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" while looking for a bigger stick.
~ Sean Keogh
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.
~ George Horace Lorimer
The Brazilian diplomat Josué de Castro, in his book The Geopolitics of Hunger, was even bolder in his criticism of the neo-Malthusians, saying that 'The road to survival, therefore, does not lie in the neo-Malthusian prescriptions to eliminate surplus people, nor in birth control, but in the effort to make everybody on the face of the earth productive.' In
~ Matt Ridley
Well, Colonel, there is diplomacy and there is reality. Our ambassador represents diplomacy. I represent reality. And the reality is we don't want you.
~ Stephen Kinzer