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Diplomats Quotes

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

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.
Will Rogers

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

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
Margaret Sanger

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
David Lloyd George

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

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

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

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.
Michael K. Simpson

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.
James Green Somerville

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

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

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.
John Keegan

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
Arthur Joseph Goldberg

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

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.
Anthony Holden

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

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