I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
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.'
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
A diplomat should be yielding and supple as a creeper that can be bent but not broken.
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.
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
Once war was considered the business of soldiers, international relations the concern of diplomats. But now that war has become seemingly total and seemingly permanent, the free sport of kings has become the forced and internecine business of people,...
Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.
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'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...
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
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 ...
My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the ...
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
I'm not always the most diplomatic person.
I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.
Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?
Charlie Chaplin: I'm sorry, I prefer not to shake hands with Nazis. German Diplomat: What have you got against us, Mr. Chaplin? Charlie Chaplin: What have you got against everybody else? Man at party: You'll have to forgive him. He's a Jew! German Di...
I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.
