I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.
I'm not always the most diplomatic person.
I am an undiplomatic diplomat.