Top 35 Diplomats Quotes

Here we have the best Diplomats Quotes from famous authors such as Azita Ghanizada, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Margaret Sanger, Henry Grunwald, Aiden Wilson Tozer. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

Azita Ghanizada

The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence that they were either in touch with Abu Sayyaf or doing their own espionage.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

Margaret Sanger

Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today‘s turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.

Henry Grunwald

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer

My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the ’70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.

Sonoya Mizuno

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

Arthur Goldberg

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

Charles de Gaulle

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Jim Mattis

Let’s make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years… Dayton isn’t working. Nobody – except diplomats and petty officials – believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.

Franjo Tudjman

American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding issues left over from World War I, and Washington took the lead in negotiating naval limitations in the Pacific.

Margaret MacMillan

The symbolic significance of individual athletes‘ achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

Richard Attias

When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can’t do the things that they can do here.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

Josephus Daniels

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on.

Noah Feldman

In response to Russia‘s election hacking, the U.S. expelled not just one, but 35 spies posing as diplomats – the strongest response ever to a cyberattack against the U.S.

Asha Rangappa

Journalists couldn’t do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

David Ignatius

British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck’s Oscar-winning film ‘Argo,’ which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.

Simon Hoggart

When we did Diplomats music, it was all genuine, and I think that’s why people love it so much, because they seen a group of kids from Harlem that had almost nothing come up to be platinum-selling artists, and people rode that wave with us.

Cam’ron

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.

Mike Simpson

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

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Jean Craighead George

American diplomats meet with formal government officials, we meet with opposition protesters, not just in Hong Kong or China. This literally happens in every single country in which an American embassy is present.

Morgan Ortagus

Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

Evgeny Morozov

‘Toughness’ and ‘credibility‘ are leitmotifs that run through both Trumpian and Kissingerian deal-making. Both men insist that war and diplomacy are inseparable and that, to be effective, diplomats need to be able to wield threats and offer incentives in equal, unrestricted measure.

Greg Grandin

I really got deep into downloading music when I moved to the South and got a computer. So I was downloading the The Diplomats, AZ, Half-A-Mil, 40 Cal.

JPEGMAFIA

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn’t a proper end game.

David Miliband

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.

Isabel Allende

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.

Anthony Lewis

In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.

David Ignatius

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

Paul Claudel

Diplomats bluster and bluff, but democracies don’t really have that many tools they can use to push back, effectively, against the seductive ideas of dictators.

Anne Applebaum