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There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.

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

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.'

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 don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.