"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers." - W. Averell Harriman

"Diplomacy-The art of saying 'Nice doggie' till you can find a rock." - Wynn Catlin, attributed, by Bennett Cerf in The Laugh's on Me

"A diplomat is a fellow that lets you do all the talking while he gets what he wants." - Frank McKinney Hubbard

"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." - Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red

"Diplomacy - The art of saying 'Nice doggie' till you can find a rock." - WYNN CATLIN, attributed, by Bennett Cerf in The Laugh's on Me

"Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way."
- BISAAC GOLDBERG, in The Reflex

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (inaugural address, 1961)

"A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the cliché and the indiscretion." - HAROLD MACMILLAN, comment made in Parliament

"An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth." - HENRY WOTTON, written in the autograph album of Christopher Fleckmore (1604)

"Diplomacy--the art of saying 'Nice doggie' 'til you can find a stick." - Catlin, Wynn

"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing." - Nasser, Gamel Abdel

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Reagan, Ronald in a radio broadcast test