Diplomats Quotes - Page 2

• A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

  Madeleine Albright

  Reactions, Extremes

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• A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

  Joseph Stalin

  Military, Iron, Water

  Joseph Stalin (1953). “1907-1913”

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• The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.

  Barry Goldwater

  Doe, Succeed, Diplomacy

  "Goldwater from A to Z: a critical handbook".

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

  Carl T. Rowan

  Funny, Dog, Kids

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• Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

  Peter Ustinov

  These Days, Diplomacy, Waiter

  "Romanoff and Juliet".

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

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Knows, Know How

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• They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

  Anthony Holden

  Real, Intelligent, Track

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• Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

  Ronald Reagan

  Crafts, Foxes, Passed Away

  Address to United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 1987.

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• We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Messages, Compromise, Prophet

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• Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

  Andrew Young

  Diplomacy, Copiers, Died

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• Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

  Margaret Sanger

  Facts, Diplomacy

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Kathleen Turner

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

  Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

  Diplomatic

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• A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.

  Robert Bourassa

  Tired, Police, Cabinets

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• Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

  Josephus Daniels

  Military, Mistake, Army

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• People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

  Roone Arledge

  People, Care, Reports

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• It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

  Paul Claudel

  Long, Noses, Politics

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

  John Gimlette

  Giving Up, Ideas, Attrition

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1996.

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• Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Military, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Military, Rain, Weather

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• Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

  Gary Cherone

  Rocks, Guy, Rock N Roll

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• 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

  Real, War, People

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

  Ambrose Bierce

  Arbitration, Burning, May

  Ambrose Bierce (1909). “The Shadow on the Dial: And Other Essays”

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