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Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

— Margaret Sanger

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they…

— Scott Anderson

I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

— David Cunliffe

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

— Otto von Bismarck

Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is…

— Jonathan Turley

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

— David Cunliffe

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

— Tom Clancy

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an…

— Robert M. Gates

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

— Karl Kraus