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."

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

'The school. My counselor told me to make the most of it...'

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

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

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

'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

'We think he has a future in politics.'

Who posted the hilarious pics of you with the goofy haircut? Not sure. Someone who wants to humiliate me. One of the usual cyber bullies. No. Meaner. Hmm

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

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."

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

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

…Here's the deal…You get your brother and sister to finish their fruit, vegetable and milk, and I'll get you extra dessert… Food Pyramid Scheme.

'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."

Shimon Peres

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

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

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