The Diplomat

No one with the temperament to win a campaign should be in charge of anything. It's the most obvious rule in the world, No one who likes power should have it.

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You know who you can't fire? Cinderella.

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Hal Wyler: [to Gate Guard] Could I trouble you for a lift? Gate Guard: Wish I could, official business only. Might I book you a cab? Hal Wyler: Oh, I'm gonna take a walk. Gate Guard: [comes running] Sir! Sir! Hal Wyler: Oh, my goodness. I am so sorry. Of course, you drive on the other side of the road.

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[about her dress] How is this a sixteen hundred dollar piece of clothing? It doesn't even have pockets!

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(to Hal) I told the chief of station she was like Colin Powell selling WMD. My DCM thinks I'm so upset you eclipsed me, I actually shit my pants. Thanks to your intervention, I appear to the two most important colleagues I have on this mission...LIKE A FUCKING PSYCHOTIC!! (cut to outside her office as everyone hears Kate's scream; Kate opens the door and speaks normally to her secretary) I would like to speak to the Secretary of State, please.

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Kate Wyler: Shahin wants to modernize his country. He's one of the only people in the regime who gets along with the reformists and the military and the mullahs, because his father rode bikes with the supreme leader when they were 10. And inexplicably, he doesn't believe we're the great Satan. Billie Appiah: I understand he's valuable. Kate Wyler: You don't. An Iran deal can be revoked. Clearly. What we are really doing when we negotiate with them, or with anyone, is looking for one or two friends we can call when the world is truly fucked. It is a flimsy web of relationships. But sometimes it holds. Do not tear it. Do not be an infinitely ravenous American. Use what he already gave you.

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