Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cunliffe

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

Barry Goldwater

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

Anne Rice

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

Andrew Young

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Nadine Gordimer

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.

Franz Grillparzer

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

David Cross

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

James Zogby

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

Jasmine Guinness

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

A great politician has great charisma.

Arlen Specter

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Elizabeth Edwards

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

Billy Campbell

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

Barry Goldwater

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.