American Quote by Morgan Ortagus

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

In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.

— David Ignatius

The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their…

— Michael K. Simpson

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

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

— Winston Churchill

“International leaders in business, government, and nonprofit organizations whisper behind closed doors about the way visiting Americans live in their own bubbles without having…

— David Livermore

I am not a diplomatic person.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

I don't think that leaking an American diplomat's private information, pictures, names of their children, I don't think that is a formal protest, that…

— Morgan Ortagus

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

— Edward Snowden

So China's president [Hu Jintao] meets, uh - meets America's president. It's like President "Who?" meeting President "Huh?"

— Jay Leno

If you're someone from the government and you meet people from other countries, you want to know who you're dealing with. It's the same…

— Luc Besson