“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
“Shape, shine, shadow, silhouette, smell, sound and movement - Niner said, repeating the basic rules of camouflage. - Shame they couldn't find something beginning with S to complete the set.”
RC-1309 Niner (in Star Wars- Republic Commando: Hard Contact by Karen Traviss)
“They were called grunts, and many of them, however grudgingly, were proud of the name. They were the infantrymen, the foot soldiers of the war.”
Bernard Edelman
“The diplomat in question no longer enjoys the privileges and immunities conferred by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. He has been expelled from the United States for not voluntarily departing by the appointed time. We do not have any further comments on the case.”
James Rubin
“The objective of the trip is to move the diplomatic process forward started by Secretary of State Rice's new initiative that has allowed for serious bilateral talks within the six party format,”
Bill Richardson
“[Chiefs president Carl Peterson was even less diplomatic.] Lamar Hunt was the guy who founded (the AFL), ... Al Davis started in this league as an assistant coach. I don't know that Al Davis ... has ever really taken a moment to say to Lamar Hunt, `Hey thank you, on behalf of myself and my family for starting the American Football League and allowing me an opportunity to do the things I've always wanted to do.' ”
Carl Peterson
“Talk is cheap. What they're engaged in is stirring up a lot of chaff. They've started up their diplomatic fog machine here.”
Sean McCormack
