Top 136 Diplomat Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.
I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
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.'
In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
My father's a diplomat. He speaks Russian.
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.
You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.
A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.
I am an undiplomatic diplomat.
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher, doctor - all laid out.
An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.
I'd like to think that the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.
I'm not some ditzy moron who has no idea how to deal with a diplomat as if they're some exotic animal.
I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.
I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
My dad is an ambassador. My brother is a diplomat. I doubt that I could be doing anything else other than being a diplomat if I weren't in showbiz. It's in the genes!
I think the job of the first single is kind of like being a diplomat for a country.
My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.
The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.
Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.
A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.
One of my American heroes is the great former U.S. diplomat George Kennan.
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.
Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.
America is the freest country on the planet, but for Snowden, this isn't enough. He is a state diplomat in Snowden land.
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing.
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.
A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
I'm a career diplomat. I spent 30 years as a diplomat, out of which seven years as foreign minister. I've always believed in the United Nations as a centre of multilateralism and multilateral diplomacy.
I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.
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.
Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz.
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.
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.
I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.'
A Canadian on the ground in different parts of the world, whether they're a diplomat, an aid worker, or a soldier, has an extraordinary, powerful impact.
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
Having been raised overseas, I wanted to become a diplomat. But the State Department thought I was too 'liberal' to be happy with that job.
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.
I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.
