“A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.” — Joseph Stalin Quote

“A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.”

“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

“In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.”

“I was never the diplomatic diplomat.”

“I don't think that leaking an American diplomat's private information, pictures, names of their children, I don't think that is a formal protest, that is what a thuggish regime would do.”