Quotes About Diplomat

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I don't think that anyone in the pages of 'War on Peace' is arguing that diplomacy is the replacement for military power. But, correctly, the job of the military is to think tactically.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

Busca el acuerdo «La diplomacia es el arte de permitir a alguien hacer la tuya.» Daniele Varè

Diplomacy was a long game.

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

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.

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

For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

Britain must be the champion of international law.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.

Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Agreements five years later would have happened. His achievements over detente, the seeds of trust he sowed in a very distrustful and hostile Moscow, helped over a long period.

I could sit down with Kim Jong-un, but I will not meet him for the sake of meeting him. I will meet Kim Jong-un when preconditions of resolving the nuclear issue are assured.

I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.

Se lo interrogavano, rispondeva a monosillabi e cercava di non sbilanciarsi. Su Deneb questa gli sarebbe sembrata una ipocrisia, ma sulla Terra si chiamava essere diplomatici.

There was a single argument he made, Clapper said, that the North Koreans had not pushed back on during his 2014 visit. The United States, he had argued, has no permanent enemies. Look, he said, we had a war with Japan and Germany but now are friends with both. We had a war with Vietnam but now we are friends. Clapper had recently visited Vietnam. Even after a full-scale war, peaceful coexistence was possible.

Porfirio Rubirosa.

He wanted to be on good terms with the Washington generals," Dyson observed, "and to be a savior of humanity at the same time.