Diplomats Quotes - Page 3

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 [Donald] Trump folks chose not to keep [Dan Fried] on. He was actually - I said he was actually the third-most senior diplomat in the foreign service.

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.

Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

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

Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.

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

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.

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.

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

Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

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

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

Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.