Quotes About Diplomacy

After more than two decades of traveling with American presidents and chief diplomats - on visits to places that have included some of the world's most repressive nations - I am used to watching leaders disappear behind closed doors.

International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.

I will protect and defend France's vital interests. I will protect and defend Europe.

The Paris Agreement threw people of the world a lifeline, and the United States played a vital role in getting us there, not least by working closely with China to clear the decks to a global deal.

We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.

It is a vital British and European interest to demonstrate to Putin that Trump is on our side, not his.

At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations.

Partisanship should have no role in the vital U.S.-Israel relationship.

It is vital that people are aware of what the Foreign Office can and can't do.

I will acknowledge that Israel would not exist were it not for the United States. For Israel, that relationship is vital. It's important for the U.S., but it is vital for Israel.

When I'm looking for a leader who's gonna sit across the negotiating table from a nuclear Iran, or who's gonna be intent on destroying ISIS, I couldn't care less about that leader's temperament or his tone or his vocabulary. Frankly, I want the meanest, toughest son of a gun I can find.

I'm very mindful that I am representing the Philippines, so I cannot voice an opinion that contradicts that of our leader, Pres. Duterte.

From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.

Israel is one of our staunchest allies in an increasingly volatile world.

My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.

There are no second chances in the volatile Middle East.

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media.

Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily.