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Quotes About Diplomats

Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much time questioning one another's biases and loyalties that they have even settled on two opposing categories: 'panda huggers' versus 'panda sluggers.'
~ Evan Osnos
The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.
~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Russia has conducted a coordinated cyberattack on state election systems and hacked critical infrastructure. They have used social media to sow chaos and discord in our society. They have beaten and harassed U.S. diplomats and violated anti-proliferation treaties.
~ Richard Burr
Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.
~ Erik Larson
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
~ Margaret Sanger
Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets
~ Bob Dylan
I've met a lot of people in the diplomatic corps who were in love with the sound of their own voice, but this guy. He and his voice should just get a room.
~ John Scalzi
For, as far as these important diplomats are concerned, to look at you in a certain way is intended to convey to you not that they have seen you but that they have not, and that they have some serious matter
~ Marcel Proust
Looks like the goddamned General Assembly at the UN.
~ Unknown
to found a fraternal society of their own. Humbler than its illustrious Vienna equivalent, their Filiki Etaireia (Friendly Society) would turn out to be the catalyst for Europe's first successful national revolution, ultimately forcing kings and diplomats to change their entire approach to the management of the European peace.11
~ Unknown
So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple!
~ Melina Marchetta
Senators, MPs, diplomats and journalists belatedly realized that they needed to know about the new menace. They had looked the other way because they worried the demented Ayatollah Khomeini would invade Iraq and be in a position to move into Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and control most of the world's oil. Now the demented Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait and could move into Saudi Arabia and control most of the world's oil.
~ Nick Cohen
Hondas sound like cars designed by pacifists and humanitarian diplomats. The Accord, Civic, Insight.
~ Paul Beatty