Diplomats Quote by Walter Lippmann Download Open image “A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.” — Walter Lippmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diplomats Doe Success Victory Winning
Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible. — Polybius Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Diplomats bluster and bluff, but democracies don't really have that many tools they can use to push back, effectively, against the seductive ideas of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them… — Michael Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil thoughts pile… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than… — Dexter Filkins Copy Share Image
