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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
Ambrose Bierce
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In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
Thomas R. Pickering
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You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
Robert MacNeil
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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
Clement Attlee
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A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
Peter Ustinov
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For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
George W. Bush
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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
Nicholas D. Kristof
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
Andrew Young
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In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
Lincoln Chafee
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Walter Bagehot
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Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.
Joe Klein
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I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!
Jimmy Cliff
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Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
Winston Churchill
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
John Bolton
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The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.
Vladimir Putin
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Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.
Albert J. Nock
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Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.
Benjamin Disraeli
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You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
Kofi Annan
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You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
Bill Vaughan
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan
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Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.
Ali Larijani
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
Andrew Young
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
Karl Kraus
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
Brent Scowcroft
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Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.
Rachael Yamagata
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In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.
Ilona Andrews
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Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn.
Maria V. Snyder
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Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.
George P. Bush
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Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining
Julian Burnside
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I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.
S.M. Stirling
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Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.
Frank Herbert
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There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.
John F. Kennedy
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The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other.
George W. Bush
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Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.
Condoleezza Rice
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Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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We've said to the Iranians all along . . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us.
Barack Obama
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Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.
Charlie Huston