Top 319 Diplomatic Quotes & Sayings

If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.

I am sweet and diplomatic in real life.

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

I'm not very diplomatic and wear my heart on my sleeve.

I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.

I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.

I am not a diplomatic person.

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

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

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

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

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

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

I know the pros and cons of not being diplomatic.

There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and prosperity.

Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

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

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

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

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

I'm not diplomatic.

I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.

Hillary Clinton is a tough person. She's diplomatic, and I would've felt safe with her as the president. Now we have an individual who doesn't know the diplomatic process and refuses to learn it. Even President Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again," is a very offensive statement. Only a person who has never studied American history would say "great again." It took us a very long time to get to the progressive nature we're at. We still have a great deal of work to do.

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.

I am very moohphat and can never be diplomatic or politically correct.

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

We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.

There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

We want to have diplomatic engagement with the North Koreans.

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.

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

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

I am the last person on Earth who can be diplomatic. I say what I actually feel.

I would like to be George Clooney - diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

We can't afford to let the international community and the world lose faith in the diplomatic track.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all, our diplomatic ties date back 150 years, more than 150 years now.

I am pleased though that there's a possibility of a diplomatic solution [in Syria]. I remain somewhat skeptical, but I am pleased that it's a possibility and I think people like myself who've been arguing for delaying this bombing, have allowed this diplomatic possibility to occur.

Israel is a big provider of military technology to Brazil and this has caused a big breach in the two sides of the government. On the one hand, you have the diplomatic side. On the other side, Brazil's military has been quoted in the local press as being quite upset that this diplomatic standoff could affect the military relationship.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions.

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.

We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.

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

There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver.

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

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]

Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

And Trump isn't exactly the most diplomatic of people.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.