"Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country."
--Ambrose Bierce
"Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
--Ambrose Bierce
"Diplomats are only useful in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop."
--Charles DeGaulle
"Whatever it is that government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."
--P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores
"A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense."
--P.J. O'Rourke
"Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock."
--Will Rogers
"It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again."
--Will Rogers
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