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• Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

  Isaac Goldberg

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• Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

  Dee Dee Myers

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• Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

  David Frost

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• Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

  Bo Bennett

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• Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

  Barbara W. Tuchman

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• America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.

  Barbara Mikulski

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• For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

  George W. Bush

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• I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

  Stuart Symington

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• Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock.

  Will Rogers

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• English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

  Edward Sapir

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• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  Edward V. Lucas

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• Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.

  Esther Williams

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• Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

  Dean Acheson

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• An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

  Walter Bagehot

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• We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

  Mahmoud Abbas

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• 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.

  Will Rogers

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• Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

  Otto von Bismarck

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• Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

  Alvin Adams

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• There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

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• An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

  Henry Wotton

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