Quotes About Diplomacy

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.

But I would not refuse a meeting with Putin. I would like to spend a week with Putin, so that I could better understand him.

I started off in radio, then made little films for Granada. I applied for a job at 'Weekend World,' and they turned me down; I'd also applied to the Foreign Office, which accepted me.

I long ago tired of politicians who never say anything, adhere to their talking points, and avoid all controversy.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Poland is the natural bridge between East and West.

For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.

I would very much like for us to set up permanent American bases in Poland, which we would call 'Fort Trump.'

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

The United States' job is not to police the whole world.

I won't talk to the D.C. police.

I know that sometimes we, as Americans, we reach outside of our means, and every once in a while we like to 'police the world,' but I think we do a lot of good as well.

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call.

Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?

U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

Belarus is not the Middle East. The policies of Belarussian and Middle Eastern leaders are cardinally different from one another.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.

The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.