One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“By exerting ourselves through unnecessary or irrelevant speech or action, we increase the risk of conflict by a million percent. By meeting… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
“Once war was considered the business of soldiers, international relations the concern of diplomats. But now that war has become seemingly total… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they… — Azita Ghanizada Copy Share Image
“he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats - all of… — Riyad Mansour Copy Share Image
The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future . — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo. — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats… — Tom Lantos Copy Share Image
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump's incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke on the phone with Russia's ambassador the same day President Obama expelled 35… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator,… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The hot gossip in Washington is that Condoleezza Rice might have a new boyfriend. Secretary of State Rice is being linked to… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit:… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Given that the doubtless unsuspecting taxpayers of South Africa provided every diplomat abroad with free housing, a foreign service allowance (in addition… — Tony Leon Copy Share Image
But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister,… — Paul Douglas Copy Share Image
A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather… — Robert Bourassa Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly… — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
To say that politics is not a part of sports is not being realistic. When I run, I am more than a… — Filbert Bayi Copy Share Image