Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.


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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK
My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK
I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK
My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK
I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK
Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK
Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK
Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK
I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK
I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK
I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK
I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK
For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK
All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON
He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the...
BARBARA OLSON
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
BARBARA OLSON
There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ...
BARBARA OLSON
From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ...
BARBARA OLSON
Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi...
BARBARA OLSON
Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi...
BARBARA OLSON
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ...
BARBARA OLSON
Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ...
BARBARA OLSON
I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ...
BARBARA OLSON
The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t...
BARBARA OLSON
I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls...
BARBARA OLSON
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat...
BARBARA OLSON
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho...
BARBARA OLSON
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK