Quotes About Diplomacy

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership.

American leadership is essential.

America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.

Over the course of nearly a half-century, Cuba, Congo, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Namibia, Mozambique, Chile, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and even tiny Granada, among many others, were interpreted by U.S. strategists as battlegrounds with the Soviet empire.

And I always thought we were lucky to have Saudi Arabia's oil might in his hands. He was never one to upset the applecart." Then,

Yovanovitch's testimony was an act of tremendous honor and importance.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

Lots of things are true. Doesn't mean you have to go around saying them.

Kind of like saying 'no offense' when you've just said something offensive?

And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies.

You have no right to tell me-" "You do not want to finish that sentence, missy. You want to sit down, close your mouth, and eat." "How am I supposed to eat with my mouth closed?

Your mama always did have an eye for good-looking men." This was Ree, trying to be diplomatic. "Then again, she also had an eye for trouble." Not that diplomatic. Ree narrowed her eyes at Dean. "You trouble?" she asked. "No, ma'am." She turned to Michael. "You?" He offered her his most charming smile. "One hundred percent." Ree snorted. "That's what I thought.

Perhaps," Aunt Olivia suggested diplomatically, "you should put on some clothes." Apparently, the tailor had finished getting the measurements she needed. Apparently, that wasn't a particularly recent development. Apparently, I'd been standing there in my undergarments for a while. Only about a third as embarrassed as I should have been, I ducked back into the dressing room.

If only world leaders would get laid well and regularly, the world's problems might disappear.

According to Charlie, getting laid fixes everything. If only world leaders would get laid well and regularly, the world's problems might disappear.