Quotes About Diplomacy

Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

There's never been an entertainer that can take two warring parties and have both presidents stand on the stage and hold hands.

America can change its presidents, but the world doesn't change.

I think different presidents have different ways of governing. We just have to respect that.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

You won't ever hear me talk about whether my wife's prettier than your wife.

I'm not going to negotiate with Brazil for its pretty face. I'm going to negotiate with Brazil because they're going to open their car-manufacturing market.

I've been pretty good at negotiating.

I have learned that European politics is very much like Danish politics. You have all the rumours.

I believe that if America does not lead, others will - others who do not share our interests and our values - and the world will grow darker, for our friends and for us.

I believe in the Camp David accords.

We need to be free to do deals with the rest of the world.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

George H. W. Bush

When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the U.S. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt.

I have a deep love for the Chinese people.

There is something different between defence deal and deal in defence.

America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.

Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.

It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.