Daily Inspiration Quote by Mitchell Reiss

"And so" is doing stealthy work here: it frames what follows as inevitable, logical, the natural next slide in a sequence that no one person fully controls. For a diplomat, that’s not verbal clutter; it’s a positioning move. It suggests continuity and momentum without assigning blame or claiming victory. You can almost hear the room: reporters pressing for specifics, stakeholders listening for signals, adversaries parsing every syllable for leverage.

"A lot of diplomatic movement" is classic calibrated vagueness. "Movement" implies progress, but it’s noncommittal about direction. It can mean shuttle visits, backchannel feelers, draft texts circulating, a change in posture, or simply that people are talking again. "A lot" invites the audience to feel that activity is happening - that wheels are turning - without the speaker having to disclose what’s actually on the table, who’s conceding what, or whether anything has hardened into agreement.

The subtext is reassurance under constraint. Reiss is performing competence (things are not stalled), protecting process (no premature details), and preserving optionality (if talks collapse, he never promised "breakthrough"). Diplomats traffic in ambiguity because precision is a liability: it can box in allies, inflame domestic politics, or hand opponents an opening. The phrase is a soft curtain: it keeps the public narrative warm while buying negotiators time to do the messy, reversible work that real deals require.