"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As……" — Charles de Gaulle
"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
More Diplomacy Quotes
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. — Walter Bagehot
- All war represents a failure of diplomacy. — Tony Benn
- Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. — Otto von Bismarck
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one… — Ambrose Bierce
- Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. — John Bolton
- Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one… — James Buchan
- Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy. — Madeleine Albright
- For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America. — George W. Bush
- In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid. — Lincoln Chafee
- Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. — Hillary Clinton
- I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of… — Hillary Clinton