#diplomat

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

— Dean Acheson

#anxious #assumes #classic #diplomatic #disagree

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#became #because #between #came #community

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#diplomatic #george #george clooney #i #inner

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #compromised #diplomatic #initiatives #interested

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#believe #diplomat #figure #going #how

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#diplomat #huge #huge difference #human #human relations

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#comply #diplomatic #doing #effort #exhausted

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#because #been #best #debate #diplomatic

I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did. ↗

— William Devane

#along #alter #because #begin #care

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#days #diplomat #down #head #nothing