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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans.

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.