I said one meeting could have been an email and now everybody acts surprised. by Otto von Bismarck

Correct. History is 10% genius and 90% other people blinking first.

Receipts are just diplomacy with better stationery.

You say that like the rest of us enjoyed getting professionally outmaneuvered in public.

He always talks like he won because he was calm. No, he won because he was unbearable.

I was just being efficient. You brought the dramatic collapse.

I leave for five minutes and you two turn Europe into a grudge spreadsheet.

Exactly. He doesn't negotiate, he waits until everyone else gets tired.

Both of you are impossible. I built a country with patience and receipts.