Diplomats Quotes · Page 5

Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

— Mona Charen

Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts]…

— Malcolm X

Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the…

— John Keegan

A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather…

— Robert Bourassa

When we did Diplomats music, it was all genuine, and I think that's why people love it so much, because they seen…

— Cam'ron

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm…

— Robert M. Gates

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,…

— Steve Lacy

The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak…

— Dexter Filkins

My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional,…

— Vladimir Putin

Jason Rezaian is finally headed home. He's the correspondent for The Washington Post who was held in Iran for a year and…

— Renee Montagne

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up…

— Franjo Tudjman

I wouldn't join the International Criminal Court. This is a body based in The Hague where unaccountable judges, prosecutors, could pull our…

— George W. Bush

Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons…

— Mark Steyn

The hot gossip in Washington is that Condoleezza Rice might have a new boyfriend. Secretary of State Rice is being linked to…

— Jay Leno

My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans - two diplomats and,…

— Hillary Clinton

When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not…

— Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests…

— Simon Hoggart

I am saying that I am trying to minimize the donations to these groups by talking to diplomats. The transparency bill also…

— Ayelet Shaked

“We found an American soldier. He is with us right now. I performed the steps of initial drugging. Minutes ago, I gave…

— Karl Braungart

“That’s exactly where they send entry-level diplomats. After you cut your teeth on a few civil wars and a famine or two,…

— Elle Lothlorien

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to…

— Tom Harkin

If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just…

— F. Paul Wilson

A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never…

— Terry Pratchett

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise…

— Oswald Spengler

I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place…

— John Gimlette

American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding…

— Margaret MacMillan

It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accountable for their behavior or…

— Debbie Stabenow

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a…

— Benazir Bhutto

The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

— Richard Attias

Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter…

— Malcolm X

The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because…

— Anonymous

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in.…

— Iman Abdulmajid

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as…

— Isabel Allende

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that…

— James Green Somerville

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

— Marlene Dietrich

To say that politics is not a part of sports is not being realistic. When I run, I am more than a…

— Filbert Bayi