Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you...
I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.
Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
He believed that rank without power was a sham.
Learn to think continentally.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passi...
presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.
Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.
He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.