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Diplomats Quotes

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

Authors on Diplomats Quotes: Nadine Gordimer Madeleine Albright Peter Ustinov Margaret Sanger Rachel Maddow Ronald Reagan John Gimlette Scott Ritter Alfred Denning, Baron Denning Margery Wilson Gary Cherone Thelma Schoonmaker David Cunliffe Mona Charen Winston Churchill Adel al-Jubeir John Hay Richard Armitage Alfred Eisenstaedt Gloria Estefan Isaac Bashevis Singer Regis Debray Donald Trump Kurtis Blow Woody Milintachinda Adolfo Aguilar Zinser John Maynard Keynes Robert Bourassa Andrew Young C. Northcote Parkinson Franz Grillparzer Thomas R. Pickering Aiden Wilson Tozer
2.
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
Thomas R. Pickering

3.
Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg

4.
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Zhou Enlai

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The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.
C. Northcote Parkinson

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Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
Margaret Sanger

8.
Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.
Gary Cherone

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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 trouble.
John Keegan

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When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady.
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

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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

12.
I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

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American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.
Charles G. Dawes

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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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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Peter Ustinov

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If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull

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a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.
Margery Wilson

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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

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There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.
John Hay

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

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn

22.
A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.
Trygve Lie

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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
Andrew Young

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Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.
Marlene Dietrich

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God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.
Regis Debray

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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
Charles de Gaulle

27.
Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
Arthur Goldberg

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

29.
I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.
Alfred Eisenstaedt

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I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.
Thelma Schoonmaker

31.
My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.
Kurtis Blow

32.
A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.
Madeleine Albright

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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

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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.
Benazir Bhutto

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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

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Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
Margaret Sanger

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The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.
F. Paul Wilson

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I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.
Khushwant Singh

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In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.
David Brin

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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
Franz Grillparzer

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Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
Umberto Eco

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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
Nadine Gordimer

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Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.
Adel al-Jubeir

45.
An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.
Winston Churchill

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The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.
Ronald Reagan

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I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
Gloria Estefan

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I'd like to think that the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
Scott Ritter

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Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.
Mona Charen

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