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.
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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.
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.
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.
I am an undiplomatic diplomat.
A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.