Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.
In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.
The military can buy our diplomats some time.
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 make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
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'.
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.