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Diplomacy: The art of saying

Diplomacy: The art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock. – Wynn Catlin

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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. – Dean Acheson

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There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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Foreign diplomats in Rome disconsolately say, Italy is the opposite of Russia. In Moscow nothing is known, yet everything is clear. In Rome everything is public, there are no secrets, everybody talks, things are at times flamboyantly enacted, yet one understands nothing. – Luigi Barzini

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Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. – Caskie Stinett, Out of the Red, 1960

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