Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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 make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
The military can buy our diplomats some 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.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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.
Why are diplomatic cables secret at all?
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.