"A diplomat who says yes means maybe, a……" — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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• 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

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