Quotes About Diplomacy

I've never been against doing business with Cuba.

Doing business with Cuba is good for America.

Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with.

You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.

I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.

The European family may well be anything but perfect. But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity.

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

If what is on the table is something that is not good for Mexico, Mexico will step away from NAFTA.

If necessary, we will have to strengthen sanctions even further, but the goal of sanctions must be to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table.

Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced and depicted around the world. Along the way, I'll be very fair to white people.

What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects.

Every day at the State Department, we tackle issues at the intersection of foreign policy and science and technology.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.