I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
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My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
quote by Kathleen Turner
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Assange Has Courageously Exposed...?
Will South American governments defend freedom of speech?
Or will a man be Obama witch hunted for exposing diplomatic
deceit; political foreign invasion; occupation conspiracy lies?
Assange has courageously exposed an orchestrated litany of lies?
To delet the diplomatic status of an embassy; to arbitrarily
revoke the immunity of embassies would be a crime worthy;
of Nazi Germany Iran North Korea but no threat to withdraw;
diplomatic status is an insane UK 'hostile and intolerable act'?
poem by Terence George Craddock
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My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.
quote by Cyrus Vance
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The Diplomatic Platypus
I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity,
With whom I soon discovered a remarkable affinity.
He used to live in lodgings with myself and Arthur Purvis,
And we all went up together for the Diplomatic Service.
I had a certain confidence, I own, in his ability,
He mastered all the subjects with remarkable facility;
And Purvis, though more dubious, agreed that he was clever,
But no one else imagined he had any chance whatever.
I failed to pass the interview, the board with wry grimaces
Took exception to my boots and then objected to my braces,
And Purvis too was failed by an intolerant examiner
Who said he had his doubts as to his sock-suspender's stamina.
Our summary rejection, though we took it with urbanity
Was naturally wounding in some measure to our vanity;
The bitterness of failure was considerably mollified,
However, by the ease with which our platypus had qualified.
The wisdom of the choice, it soon appeared, was undeniable;
There never was a diplomat more thoroughly reliable.
He never made rash statements his enemies might hold him to,
He never stated anything, for no one ever told him to,
And soon he was appointed, so correct was his behaviour,
Our Minister (without Portfolio) to Trans-Moravia.
My friend was loved and honoured from the Andes to Esthonia,
He soon achieved a pact between Peru and Patagonia,
He never vexed the Russians nor offended the Rumanians,
He pacified the Letts and yet appeased the Lithuanians,
Won approval from his masters down in Downing Street so wholly, O,
He was soon to be rewarded with the grant of a Portfolio.
When on the Anniversary of Greek Emancipation,
Alas! He laid an egg in the Bulgarian Legation.
This untoward occurrence caused unheard-of repercussions,
Giving rise to epidemics of sword-clanking in the Prussians.
The Poles began to threaten, and the Finns began to flap at him,
Directing all the blame for this unfortunate mishap at him;
While the Swedes withdrew entirely from the Anglo-Saxon dailies
The right of photographing the Aurora Borealis,
And, all efforts at rapprochement in the meantime proving barren,
The Japanese in self-defence annexed the Isle of Arran.
My platypus, once thought to be more cautious and more tentative
Than any other living diplomatic representative,
Was now a sort of warning to all diplomatic students
Of the risks attached to negligence, the perils of imprudence,
And, branded in the Honours List as 'Platypus, Dame Vera',
Retired, a lonely figure, to lay eggs in Bordighera.
poem by Patrick Barrington
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A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
quote by Edward Heath
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A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.
My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.
quote by Kurtis Blow
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
quote by Joseph Stalin
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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.
Caskie Stinnett in Out of the Red (1960)
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To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
quote by Peter Ustinov
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Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.
quote by Gary Cherone
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The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.
quote by Leon Samson
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A diplomat should be yielding and supple as a creeper that can be bent but not broken.
I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.
quote by Theodore C. Sorensen
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
quote by Carey Williams
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And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.
quote by Mitchell Reiss
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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.
quote by John Keegan
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