My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.
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.
I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
I am an undiplomatic diplomat.