#diplomat

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. ↗

— David Lloyd George

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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq. ↗

— Igor Ivanov

#away #diplomatic #further #go #go away

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture. ↗

— Walter Salles

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I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#avoid #china #confrontation #country #current

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

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

— Dean Acheson

#anxious #assumes #classic #diplomatic #disagree

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#anxious #assumes #classic #diplomatic #disagree

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood. ↗

— Kurtis Blow

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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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