Quotes About Diplomacy

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

I don't sugarcoat things, but I'm very polite in delivering them.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.

We can't let the USMCA become another casualty of political games.

On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

The BJP has never considered its political opponents as enemies.

The Government of India should take all political parties into confidence before arriving at an agreement with Pakistan.

I have always believed in cordial relationship with political parties and their leaders.

Political parties usually try to lay low or provide effective responses to the opposite party's convention.

One political party must behave goodly with another political party, whatever is possible within the political jurisdiction.

I don't want a political party in my government that interferes in Arab countries against other Arab countries.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

I went to college and majored in political science.