Diplomats Quotes

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

— Kurtis Blow

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth

— Arthur Goldberg

Few diplomats have the expertise of Antony Blinken.

— Ben Ray Lujan

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.

— Richard Armitage

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

— Jim Mattis

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

— Walter Lippmann

Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.

— Donald Trump

The [Donald] Trump folks chose not to keep [Dan Fried] on. He was actually - I said he was actually the third-most…

— Rachel Maddow

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding…

— Arabella Weir

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is…

— Joseph Stalin

Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz.

— Woody Milintachinda

I really got deep into downloading music when I moved to the South and got a computer. So I was downloading the…

— JPEGMAFIA

Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were…

— Rachel Maddow

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

— Anne Rice

I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing…

— Gloria Estefan

“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

Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet…

— George Friedman

Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were…

— Scott Anderson

We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother,…

— Shirley Temple

I am straight forward; I am not manipulative; I am not two-faced. And I think that that has served me well in…

— Susan Rice

I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people.…

— Michael Stipe

He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris,…

— Hooman Majd

“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more…

— Wilhelm Reich

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more…

— Katharine Graham

Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats…

— Thomas R. Pickering

To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have…

— George Takei

...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up…

— Toby Lester

What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario,…

— John D. Rockefeller

I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been…

— Charles Krauthammer

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

— David Cunliffe

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

— Paul Claudel

Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

— John Gimlette

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

— Edward Heath

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

— Isaac Goldberg

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

— Josephus Daniels

Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

— Gary Cherone

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

— David Lloyd George