The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat. — Ronald Reagan 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
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell 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
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog. — Carl T. Rowan Copy Share Image
How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives -… — Michael Ben-Ari 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
Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his… — Bruce Springsteen 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
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
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
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
Diplomats bluster and bluff, but democracies don't really have that many tools they can use to push back, effectively, against the seductive… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as… — Vikas Swarup 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
...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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of course there are collaborations. But in official meetings with Western diplomats from the US and the European Union, the major issues… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have… — George Takei 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
“Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.” — Andrew Crofts Copy Share Image
If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull 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
Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for… — Stellan Skarsgard 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
Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and… — John Hay 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
a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it -… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
The NSC staff should not, as it has in the past, duplicate the work of military officers, diplomats or intelligence officers. — Robert C. O'Brien 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
International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on. — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image