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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dan Bartlett

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

Why are they so single-minded? We want to solve this problem diplomatically, but everyone has to have an interest in doing this through diplomatic means.

We are seeking a diplomatic solution to this problem.

We back the EU's efforts and their proposal to exploit diplomatic ways to solve the issue.

Our focus remains on diplomatic efforts to get six-party talks under way as a means of reaching the goal of a dismantlement of the North Korean program and a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.

Richard Gephardt

Part of doing this the right way and the successful way is to put together a coalition, ... Sometimes that takes diplomatic efforts as well as military efforts to get that done.

Helen Clark

would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.

We will respond through diplomatic channels. None of the U.S. attaches was or is engaged in inappropriate activities.