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In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
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You look concerned."
"Just that if you've started another war, I'd like a heads-up is all."
"The level of confidence you have in my diplomatic skills is overwhelming."
"What diplomatic skills?
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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Ambassadors are idiots who possess only one skill: outkowtowing one another at official functions.
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Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
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An ambassador is someone who thinks twice before he says nothing" -

attributed to one of India's ambassadors in Argentina at the time.
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My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.
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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!
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
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A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
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It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.
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I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
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Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
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Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice.
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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!
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I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.
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What's the use in being diplomatic? I'd rather just pull my weapon and wing it.
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Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
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My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
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The "compleat diplomat" of the future should remain cognizant of realism's emphasis on the inescapable role of power, keep liberalism's awareness of domestic forces in mind, and occasionally reflect on constructivism's vision of change.
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A diplomatic mission, like a company, is comprised of multiple departments, all of which must be relied upon to move business forward.
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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.
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I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
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The ambassador was part of the special remedial dating program," Jeeves explained. "All of the other species on the station sign up with a dating service to find their best match, but some humans can't coherently describe what they want for breakfast, much less for the rest of their lives.
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Diplomacy is the art of letting other people have your way.
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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.
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Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
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Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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How will I ever carry out diplomatic missions without someone to throw unpleasant nobles out the window?" "I'll
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Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
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Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.
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In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.
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The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.
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In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.
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An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
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The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.
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Messengers of Peace such as Midori - and our Goodwill Ambassadors, who work directly with the UN agencies - are dedicated and well-informed and credible advocates on behalf of the United Nations. They help us educate audiences worldwide and rally support on key issues of the United Nations.
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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.
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She was a riddle, who mysteriously possessed her own solution, a secret, and what are all diplomats' secrets compared with this, an enigma, and what in all the world is so beautiful as the word that solves it?
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Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.
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The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars.
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Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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When a diplomat says 'yes' he means 'maybe.' When a diplomat says 'maybe' he means 'no.' But if a diplomat says 'no' he's no diplomat.
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In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
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Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.
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Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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diplomacy is simply the name we have agreed to give to lying about national affairs. I
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Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.
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Oh, and Mr. Montgomery? I think I counted about four dozen important-sounding words and almost no substance at all in that explanation. I don't think you should close the door on your diplomatic career entirely.
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Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends ... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.
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Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.
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Bonjour, the Embassy of France'
'Ah, bonjour, excuse me for asking but where is the French Coastguard?'
'At the coast. Guarding.
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Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.
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What happens if you need a diplomat who can also practice philosophy fight with a lightsaber and levitate small objects Who else are you going to call but us

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A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.
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He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
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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.
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Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.
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A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate.
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Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
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Diplomacy is not a veiling of the truth. It is the ability to be sensitive to the truth.
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Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior.- Hun, A. T.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.
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Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.
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Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
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[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
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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'.
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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.
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One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
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A lot of diplomacy lies in appearing to be a lot more stupid than you are.
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Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.
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I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
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Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.
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Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
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People across the earth are aching to serve as your ambassadors in one form or another. Let them.
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A diplomatic statement, Lena, is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it.
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Your Highness, what do you call it when a high-ranking person lies right in your face?" the President asked with a wry smile. "Diplomacy.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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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]
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When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
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How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.
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Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
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He was so diplomatic he hardly spoke at all...
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In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.
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I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country.
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Diplomacy, if conducted sensibly, is a matter of small gains offset by small losses, an attempt to maintain a state of equilibrium in which catastrophes are either mitigated or, with luck, avoided entirely.
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I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
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An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.
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The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.
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American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.