The Diplomat Quotes (Season 4)

I think we all find comfort in the notion that if my behavior is dangerous, you’ll step in to protect the people of the United Kingdom.[to Kate]

“The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascist.” Not Churchill at all. But it’s just been used against me, in his name, on the floor of the Commons.

You wanna know what I think about marriage?[Stuart Hayford]I would love to know.[Eidra Park]I think love is not enough. I think you gotta be brutal. You gotta talk about money and kids and retirement, and if you believe in God, and how much sex you wanna have, and what cheating means, and how you wanna die. You have to want it, because it’s hard. And it goes on for a long time.[Stuart Hayford]

They say the first thing that goes under tyranny is our capacity for surprise.

My guy is not inclined to collaborate with yours. She got shot. She has PTSD.[Kate Wyler]Mine is not inclined to collaborate with yours. He has narcissistic personality disorder.[Callum Ellis]

Loyalty, by definition, was an abdication of judgment.[quoting Hal]

It feels like s***, doesn’t it? Wondering all the time if the person you love is about to run.[to Kate]

If we relayed every message word for word, we’d all be dead already.[to Todd]

I’m not worried about buying time. The diplomatic corps has perfected the art of strategic miscommunication and weaponized incompetence.

I have to pretend I’m a feminist revolutionary to cover the fact that I asked you and you told me I couldn’t have you.[to Kate]

I am the squeaky wheel in the chain, but I stay in the chain.

An alliance is nothing but a promise, and you have broken yours again and again and again.[to Kate]