Diplomatic Quotes

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

— S.M. Stirling

“Jack Bergman, Diplomatic Security Service.” “Why”

— Patrick Emmett

You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.

— Jesse Jackson

We are committed to the diplomatic process.

— Yoav Gallant

Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?

— Elliott Abrams

I know the pros and cons of not being diplomatic.

— Smriti Irani

“He was so diplomatic he hardly spoke at all...”

— Dave Duncan

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

— Mitchell Reiss

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

— Jeffrey Sachs

The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

— Christopher Titus

We can't afford to let the international community and the world lose faith in the diplomatic track.

— Condoleezza Rice

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

— Anonymous

Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances…

— Susan Rice

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

— Anonymous

The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.

— Julius Streicher

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

— Dean Acheson

Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

Well obviously, when you're in a band you have to diplomatic about things. Everybody wants to put in their two cents and…

— Dino Cazares

“Anyone who has had anything to do with the higher diplomacy is aware that diplomatic language stands in a class by itself.…

— P.G. Wodehouse

If the North Korean side shows no sincerity in solving the nuclear weapon, abduction and missile issues, then the likelihood of normalization…

— Koichi Haraguchi

“Earn, consume, and enjoy life. Offend no one; don’t get offended. Don’t take sides; don’t take a stand. Don’t interfere; don’t get…

— Abhaidev

The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they…

— Terry Pratchett

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a…

— Noam Chomsky

During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a…

— Frederic Raphael

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was really one of the - whose name is impossible to pronounce - who was really one of the…

— Jill Stein

I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious…

— Stephen Harper

I'll keep this as nonpartisan and diplomatic as possible - but for those of us whose heads are kind of spinning off…

— June Diane Raphael

The thing about our cast - and I'm not saying this just to be diplomatic - is that everyone is really fun,…

— Sarah Sutherland

We have a strong military deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. In countries like Syria, we need a diplomatic breakthrough to end the…

— Paolo Gentiloni

North Korea will never give up its arsenal. It's all that is keeping us alive. Look at Saddam Hussein - and we…

— Kim Jong-un

Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one…

— Andrei Lankov

We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's…

— Jesse Jackson

“Whose sleeve do I have to grip, to tell my story to? It used to be Bet. Now, sleeveless. And I am…

— Sebastian Barry

I am very moohphat and can never be diplomatic or politically correct.

— Shefali Zariwala

I'm not very diplomatic and wear my heart on my sleeve.

— Yolanda Hadid

I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.

— Stephenie Meyer

“There Is No Such Thing as a Diplomatic Hand Grenade”

— Douglas Stone

There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver.

— Condoleezza Rice

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

— Carrie Coon

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

— Quentin Crisp