#diplomat

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

I was never the diplomatic diplomat. ↗

— Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

#diplomatic #i #never

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage. ↗

— John Zorn

#being #diplomatic #ends #i #i can

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

— Peter Ustinov

#days #diplomat #down #head #nothing

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. ↗

— Edward Heath

#diplomat #man #nothing #says #thinks

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#civil servants #diplomats #drawn #foreign #get

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan. ↗

— James Inhofe

#bolster #community #continue #diplomatic #efforts

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #come #compromise #compromised #conclusion

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#dry #iron #like #sincere #water

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#american public #delays #diplomatic #limited #patience