A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
I am an undiplomatic diplomat.
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.'
I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
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.
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
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.
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.