Diplomats Quotes · Page 2

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

— Isaac Goldberg

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

— Edward Heath

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

— Margaret Sanger

I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.

— Scott Ritter

Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

— Mason Cooley

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

— Madeleine Albright

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

— Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

— Franz Grillparzer

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

— Charles de Gaulle

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

— Paul Claudel

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

“That is why diplomats smile: it is not hypocrisy - it is a sort of metaphysical awareness of the human impossibility of…

— Charles Malik

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Donald Trump

Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his…

— Bruce Springsteen

I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of…

— Condoleezza Rice

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

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they…

— Umberto Eco

[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

Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It…

— Nadine Gordimer

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of…

— Ronald Reagan

Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because…

— John Gimlette

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

One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the…

— Barack Obama

My view on global warming is that it's a gigantic financial scam to funnel money to these countries that think they ostensibly…

— Don Imus

If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control…

— E.C. Riegel

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

Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a…

— John Flanagan

We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We…

— Barack Obama

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

— George Takei

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

— Arabella Weir

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it. -Will Rogers

— Call Of Duty

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

— Gloria Estefan

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

— Anne Rice

“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.”

— A.E. Samaan

“Yet this disparity does call for some recognition when diplomats talk piously about civilian suffering on both sides of the conflict.”

— Anonymous

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

— Woody Milintachinda

Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

— Malala Yousafzai

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and…

— John Hay