Guatemala Quote by Stephen Kinzer

“Diplomacy is about dealing with those you rather avoid.”

— Karen Traviss

“diplomacy is simply the name we have agreed to give to lying about national affairs. I”

— Mark Twain

“diplomacy and that is only my opinion.”

— S. Magobs

“You know me, Robert, when my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier.”

— Dan Brown

“Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.”

— Andrew Crofts

“I was like, ‘Wow,’ but I got it. I had come out of a military culture, and you just have to make your objective…

— Ashlee Vance

“And if the Colonel thought that calling me his friend would make me stand by him, well, he was right.”

— John Green

“Ambassadors, of course, do not blush. It is a requisite of the job that they can sustain any manner of insult without any visible…

— Sarah Dunant

“The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.”

— Robin Hobb

“Heh. Deny it all you want, colonel. At heart, we're both flip sides of the same coin: wolves who don't fit in the pack.”

— John Ostrander

“One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself into someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles.”

— Condoleezza Rice

“You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.”

— Gabriel García Márquez