Best Diplomat Quotes
64 Diplomat quotes by 60 unique authors
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Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his…
— Bruce Springsteen
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A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a…
— Robert Bourassa
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Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks…
— Edmondo De Amicis
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What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat,…
— John D. Rockefeller
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The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
— Will Rogers
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Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed…
— Ronald Reagan
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
— Robert Frost
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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 old…
— Robert M. Gates
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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
— Joseph Stalin
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My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
— Kathleen Turner
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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
— Peter Ustinov
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With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
— Arabella Weir
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I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
— Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
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Most uncomfortable! Did we lose anyone? Head count! Lee Ark, Leetu, and Brunstetter. Three. Should we count the meech egg? No, I think not. Don't…
— Donita K. Paul
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Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a glade in the…
— John Flanagan
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For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially…
— Marcel Proust
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My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
— Carl T. Rowan
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A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
— Unknown Author
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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than…
— Benazir Bhutto
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I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher,…
— Bunker Roy
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Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture…
— Cynthia P. Schneider
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Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of…
— Nancy Gibbs
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While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living…
— Muhtar Kent
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I was bashing Israel in the past because nobody else was exposing its true record. Many people are doing it now, so I switched hats…
— Norman Finkelstein
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