Diplomats...........................

Though Jay was now serving as the chief justice of the Supreme Court, most of his career had been spent in diplomacy.  He was polite and patient, willing to take half a loaf if that was all he could get and to eat toads along the way.  Madison, whose notions of diplomacy ran to stating unanswerable propositions, disliked him and expected little from his mission.

-Richard Brookhiser,  James Madison