#diplomat

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

#ambassador #career #diplomat #during #early

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

#commitment #contrast #course #deeds #diplomatic

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#essential #leading #peace #peace process #process

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#diplomatic #lot #movement

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#invented #simply #time #waste #waste time

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. ↗

— Igor Ivanov

#away #diplomatic #further #go #go away

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

#actually #diplomat #forward #go #go to hell

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#character #check #china #diplomatic #everybody

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#anxious #assumes #classic #diplomatic #disagree

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#anxious #assumes #classic #diplomatic #disagree