The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Diplomats willing to sit for an interview usually prefer the terra firma of CNN over the whoopee cushion of Comedy Central. — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will… — Regis Debray Copy Share Image
My dad is an ambassador. My brother is a diplomat. I doubt that I could be doing anything else other than being… — Woody Milintachinda Copy Share Image
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march. — David Brin Copy Share Image
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
What I'm loving about Hilary Clinton is that she has the job that's been held mostly by men. She's made it her… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I've traveled with Jack Murtha to Iraq three times to learn more about the region, talk with our diplomats and military leaders,… — John B. Larson Copy Share Image
We have Mr. Putin in Russia. And he appears to be a popular president of Russia. And I don't think it's the… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves.… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran. — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it. — Roone Arledge Copy Share Image
When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Few Americans give more to their country than our diplomats and the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Let’s not forget—we already have a highly ranked officer secretly working for us at Patch Barracks, V Corps headquarters.” — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even… — Arthur Dean Copy Share Image
Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes. — Mona Charen Copy Share Image