Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

This diplomatic move has stopped the suit right in its early stages.

There will be diplomatic relations to North Korea,

It is our judgment there is life left in the diplomatic process.

David Cunliffe

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

Joseph Cirincione

As always, the different factions (in Washington) will use it to justify their existing positions. The vice president and his hawks will use it to show that the Iranian program can't be stopped through diplomatic means and, therefore, their preferred option of a military strike is the only option.

The more defiant Iran becomes, the more the spotlight is on the U.N. to try to find a diplomatic solution.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

Kofi Annan

stress the desirability of a peaceful and diplomatic solution, but events on the ground may be running away from us.

There's no indication that they're hiding anything. We just need to wade through the diplomatic process to re-establish ties.

Elliott Abrams

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.

What this suggests is that we need more of a robust and effective diplomatic strategy.

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.

Andrew Young

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Roger Daltrey

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

Vijay Singh

If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.

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.

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.

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.

By having a diplomatic meeting, they're ratcheting OPEC up one notch from a producers' cartel to a quasi-diplomatic organization. It's a rare occurrence,

Franz Grillparzer

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

Alexander Downer

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

If it involves diplomatic pouches, that information is sensitive one way or another. Obviously we take security very seriously.

If he said that, he's an idiot, ... They can do whatever they want here, say whatever they want, including stupidities. Today, I'm not in a diplomatic mood.

Nadine Gordimer

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

We support the . . . efforts and the proposal they have put forward to find a diplomatic solution to this problem.

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

I support diplomatic solutions to all issues at those talks.