Diplomats Quotes

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

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

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.