Diplomatic Quotes

• Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

  Robert M. Gates

  Guy, Leader, Diplomats

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• Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

  Ely Culbertson

  Power, Law, Names

  Ely Culbertson (1946). “Must We Fight Russia?”, Philadelphia ; Toronto : John C. Winston

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• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

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• I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

  Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

  Diplomats

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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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• A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Real, Aquariums, Essentials

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• The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

  Elihu Root

  Justice, Rehabilitation, Discussion

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

  Dean Acheson

  Inspirational, Party, Agree To Disagree

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• Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Player, Allies, Diplomatic Relations

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• White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Military, White, Issues

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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

  Diplomats, These Days, Diplomacy

  "Romanoff and Juliet".

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• And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

  John Zorn

  Trying, Ends, Stage

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• However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

  Hideki Tojo

  Communication, Technology, Preparation

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• The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Commitment, Past, Years

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• Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.

  Nick Lampson

  Fall, Allies, Taiwan

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• Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Divorce, Diplomatic Relations, Boundaries

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• People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Government, People, Common Sense

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• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  Quentin Crisp

  Truth, Communication, Diplomatic Relations

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• Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Character, Practice, United States

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• While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Iran, Europe, Games

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• I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

  Bianca Jagger

  Believe, Leader, Peaceful

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• The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.

  Julius Streicher

  America, United States, Jew

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• I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

  George Washington

  Political, Connections, Diplomatic Relations

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• A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

  Trygve Lie

  Real, Cutting, Diplomats

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