Diplomat Quote by David Cunliffe

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

— David Cunliffe

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible…

— John Keegan

If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of…

— Agnes Sligh Turnbull

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.

— Richard Armitage

I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

— Walter Lippmann

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

— Kathleen Turner

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

— Carl T. Rowan

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

— Ronald Reagan

Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

— John Gimlette

I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm…

— Condoleezza Rice