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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• It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Mistake, Believe, Hands

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Divorce, Diplomatic Relations, Boundaries

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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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• 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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• I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

  Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

  Diplomats

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• I was unhappy with the jobs I did after law. I got into the diplomatic service. There again I had really little to do.

  Khushwant Singh

  Jobs, Law, Unhappy

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

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• None of Ho Chi Minh's colleagues was as dedicated to the use of political struggle, psychological warfare, and diplomatic means as he was.

  William J. Duiker

  Struggle, Mean, Political

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

  Oswald Chambers

  Giving, Treasure, Poverty

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.151, Discovery House

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• And I found Jesus very disturbing, very straightforward. He wasn't diplomatic, and yet I felt like if I met Him, He would really like me. Don, I can't explain how freeing that was, to realize that if I met Jesus, He would like me. I never felt like that about some of the Christians on the radio. I always thought if I met those people they would yell at me. But it wasn't like that with Jesus.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Jesus, People

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Strong, New York, Circles

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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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• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  Quentin Crisp

  Truth, Communication, Diplomatic Relations

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• No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

  Aldrich Ames

  Knowing, Arms, Might

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• The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

  Tom Lantos

  Patience, Delay

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• As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Progress, Diplomatic Relations, Engagement

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• The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Government, Preparation, Attention

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• Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, War, Writing

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• As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic.

  George MacDonald

  Hell, Said

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• In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Trying, Succeed, Sides

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• You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

  David Garrett

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Arrows, Quiver

  Condoleezza Rice's remarks on Iran, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2006.

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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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• 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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