Quotes About Diplomacy

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

By following the concept of 'one country, two systems,' you don't swallow me up nor I you.

The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

Always treat others as they themselves wish to be treated.

La diferencia entre un diplomático y un marido es que el diplomático recuerda el cumpleaños de una mujer, pero no recuerda su edad, mientras que el marido recuerda la edad de su esposa, pero se olvida de su cumpleaños. Ser un esposo diplomático!

La différence entre un diplomate et un mari est que le diplomate se souvient de l'anniversaire d'une femme, mais ne se souvient pas de son âge, tandis que le mari se souvient de l'âge de sa femme, mais oublie son anniversaire. être un mari diplomatique! ne jamais oublier l'anniversaire de votre femme, et ne jamais laisser sa croix qu'Evergreen âge de intemporelle et alléchant vingt-cinq.

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend - Skulduggery Pleasant.

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

BRICS must provide a united and clear voice in shaping a peaceful, balanced and stable world. We must harness each other's strengths, in knowledge, skills and resources.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.

North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in the world today is that we are not providing it in the present.

The United States is the leader of the free world.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out [Usama] bin Laden.