Teenage Diplomacy Expert Gifts

"This is going to be a bad one isn't it?"

"Frankly, now that he's an obnoxious teenager, I find it more and more difficult to muster the urge to protect him..."

'Don't think of it as being a yes man, think of it as being an employed man.'

"A student skipped a model U.N. meeting – now he's claiming diplomatic immunity."

Danae's Career Plans: 'The major product manufactured today is punditry, so I'm honing my argumentative skills to work my way to the top of the blow hard industry..my goal is to become a spin ninja...'

"You're 5 years old now, Timmy. It's about time you retain an attorney."

'Gunboat diplomacy won't work, sire -- we're landlocked, remember?'

"You can build it with me, but you can't wreck it with me."

"Look! Other people. We'll have to develop a foreign policy!"

'First, I'd like to list the mitigating circumstances.'

'At first I was grounded, but my lawyer was able to plea bargain it down to 30 minutes in the Time Out Chair.'

"So a play date next Tuesday, okay? Have your people call my people to set it up."

AUKUS Deal Annoys France

"I am not ‘politicizing the issue’ — I simply asked you to pick up your room!"

'We think he has a future in politics.'

Set of scales with white family on one side and black people on the other.

'No, Bob, I haven't noticed you haven't spoken to me in 3 days... I just thought we were getting along.'

'You'll want Mr. Pigglesworth's version of the story too, I assume?'

'I'm NOT being a tattle-tale! -- I'm being a reliable source!'

"After all the trouble I've been in lately, I decided to hire a PR firm to repair my image."

"If you must know, like most cats I'm a registered Independent!"

"I'm about ready to forgive the French."

"If you don't bring me what I want, next year I'll go straight to the manufacturer in China!"

'I'll do your taxes for you, daddy, if you'll color these silly homework pictures for me.'

'A raise in my allowance is fine, dad. But what I'm really after is power of attorney.'

'Before I mow the grass, I'd like to quote from section four, paragraph c, of the state child labor code...'

"We're offering twenty million plus incentives over a four-year period, Mrs. Morton. Can Timmy come out and play?"

"Okay, it's a deal...you two pay me the same amount as your parents are, and I'll let you stay up an extra two hours."

'Sorry, boss, it's not my job.'

'May I speak to you as a man to a woman?'

Shimon Peres

"The teacher says I'm a poor listener, Dad. Will you raise my allowance?"

"When can we start calling each other names like they did in the political debates."