Diplomacy Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Diplomacy.
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“Assassination is just diplomacy by other means.”
“All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”
“I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.”
“DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.”
“Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.”
“Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest things in the nicest way.”
“An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”
“May the pens of the diplomats not ruin again what the people have attained with such exertions.”
“Mr. Scott: Diplomats. The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank.”
“It occurred to me a long time ago, Mr. Lastogne, that diplomacy has very little to do with making friends.”
“Diplomacy is about surviving until the next century. Politics is about surviving until Friday afternoon.”
“A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a tactful way that you’ll look forward with pleasure to making the trip.”
“As commander-in-chief, I make no apology for keeping this country safe and secure through the hard work of diplomacy over the easy rush to war.”
“'You're in America now' I said. 'Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.'”
“I could only read the delay as a dramatic pause. Theatrics. Or diplomacy; wise men throughout history had already noticed that sometimes there wasn’t much of a difference between the two.”
“In international relations, sharing food with people from different cultures to break down barriers is called culinary diplomacy.”
“In the ideal American universe, diplomats stayed out of strategy, and military personnel completed their task by the time diplomacy started—a view for which America was to pay dearly in the Korean and Vietnam wars.”