Top 131 Diplomats Quotes & Sayings

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

I started producing when I was listening to The Diplomats. The first time I heard Cam'ron was 'Dead or Alive.'

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

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.

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Diplomats willing to sit for an interview usually prefer the terra firma of CNN over the whoopee cushion of Comedy Central.

But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

The NSC staff should not, as it has in the past, duplicate the work of military officers, diplomats or intelligence officers.

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

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.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits.

My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.

Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Diplomats bluster and bluff, but democracies don't really have that many tools they can use to push back, effectively, against the seductive ideas of dictators.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

The Vatican has always had a core of diplomats for centuries. It has ambassadors in 180 countries and always played a kind of behind-the-scene role in many world issues.

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz.

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

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

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

My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy losing four Americans - two diplomats and, now it's public so I can say, two CIA operatives.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

The government, as a rule, discourages specialization: Military officers and diplomats are constantly transferred from one post to another, from one region to the next. Still, specialists do emerge.

Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments.

Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.

Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

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

I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city.

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

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were no longer needed.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

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

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

In response to Russia's election hacking, the U.S. expelled not just one, but 35 spies posing as diplomats - the strongest response ever to a cyberattack against the U.S.

In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.

It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accountable for their behavior or decisions. One is exempted by the constitution, and that is foreign diplomats. The other, through a loophole, is HMOs.

There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the leader of the Executive Branch, the Commander-in-Chief, the spokesperson for the nation, but the influence and the work that we have is the result not just of the president, it is the result of countless interactions and arrangements and relationships between our military and other militaries, and our diplomats and other diplomats, the intelligence officers and development workers.

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.