Quotes About Diplomacy

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Today I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

One does not make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in — the war for peace.

We don't want a fight, but business dictates we can't be made into fools.

I don't believe that peace without at least some attempt at mutual understanding can endure. Whatever official document may be signed by our leaders in the future will be undermined on the ground, on your hill and mine. It will be a cold treaty, an unloved peace that will wither and die, or more likely be murdered. If nothing else, the intimacy of our geography makes complete physical separation impossible. And so, to live, we must learn to live together.

Energy projects lead to peace

[China] is the least concerned about her own salvation. Like a good gambler, she took the loss of a slice of territory the size of Germany itself without a wince.

For real peace is not the mere absence of war. Real peace is the implausibility of war. There has never been real peace in the world.

Many Americans nowadays maintain that their government has a moral imperative to bring Third World countries the benefits of democracy and human rights, even if these goods are delivered by cruise missiles and F-16s.

Previous generations thought about peace as the temporary absence of war. Today we think about peace as the implausibility of war.

For real peace is not the mere absence of war. Real peace is the implausibility of war.

Zealous nationalists who cry "Our country first!" should ask themselves whether their country by itself, without a robust system of international cooperation, can protect the world—or even itself—from nuclear destruction.

military power cannot go far in the twenty-first century, and that waging a successful war means waging a limited war.