Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cunliffe

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

David Hockney

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

Joschka Fischer

When I heard that yesterday, I was very diplomatic and didn't pull a face. But in my head you could imagine what I was seeing: I saw people sitting around in dreadlocks with joints in their hands, and reggae music playing in the background.

Yesterday (Monday) was a technical rally. There's still a lot of uncertainty about a potential recession and about what's going to happen on the diplomatic front.

Barton Gellman

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

Ehud Barak

tough diplomatic battle. It is impossible to predict how long it will last or the results.

We want to be very clear, and not necessarily fuzz things up with diplomatic language that may get us in trouble down the road.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

Igor Ivanov

The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.

One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly. We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures.

Christopher Dodd

I don't think we've been muscular enough, if you will, at the diplomatic table. I don't disagree that we ought to leave the military option on the table.

I have many doubts we can reach a joint diplomatic platform, but I think we need to try.

I did not like fascists when I fought them as a diplomat for 23 years and I don't like them now in my own country.

Barry Goldwater

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

Frank Carlucci

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

Andrew Young

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Anne Rice

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

Richard Sherman

My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.

David Garrett

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

I would not say this is a sign of great openness. It's more like establishing diplomatic relations between two countries, rather than opening borders.

Donald Rumsfeld

to embark on a diplomatic initiative to work with North Korea to see if they wouldn't reverse their position of violating these three or four agreements.

Ye Xiaowen

We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.

We support the . . . efforts and the proposal they have put forward to find a diplomatic solution to this problem.

Glyn was a senior diplomat who had a long and distinguished career.

Blake Bailey

I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.

Yes, there is still time for diplomacy but it's up to the Iranians to seize the opportunity," ()

Dan Bartlett

The president's priority is to find a diplomatic solution to a problem the entire world recognizes.