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Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

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Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras. ↗

— John Negroponte

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The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

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If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. ↗

— Richard Perle

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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to. ↗

— John Poindexter

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