Chaotic Quote by David Ignatius

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

Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Diplomacy can and will matter; little is inevitable in international relations.

— Richard N. Haass

When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely…

— John Gimlette

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

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

— Charles de Gaulle

Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.

— Donald Trump

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see…

— Noah Feldman

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

We are coming to realise that foreign operations in today's world call for a total diplomacy ... Ambassadors can no longer be content with…

— Chester Bowles

If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much,…

— F. Paul Wilson