Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

We are in support of democratic, political, diplomatic process that would implement resolutions and save the people of Iraq. We want to make that clear, and I think some of the demonstrations did not make that clear.

Alexander Downer

We hope that it's going to be possible to get back on to the diplomatic path before too long,

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

David Cunliffe

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

David Hockney

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

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.

Helen Clark

would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

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.

Barry Goldwater

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

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.

Ehud Barak

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

Richard Sherman

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

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.

Anthony Bourdain

that diplomacy is served, and order is restored to the universe.

I think this plan is really exciting. It really makes the high school diploma more than just getting out of school.

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.

Our message to students is very clear: Your high school diploma is essential to opening doors for future economic opportunity and wage-earning.

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.