Quotes About Diplomacy

I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues.

The G7 doesn't have a permanent secretariat. The OECD can help the G8 and set the agenda for them. The secretary general of the OECD should be going to them proactively and discussing issues and priorities.

Foreign policy must be about priorities. The United States cannot do everything everywhere.

It's true that John Bolton would not win the most popular ambassador award at the U.N., but being popular shouldn't be the priority.

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

It's - getting Assad out is not the only priority. And so what we're trying to do is obviously defeat ISIS.

I don't look at Israel through the prism of running an election.

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.

When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively.

It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

In my job, as head of the International Trade Centre, I have the privilege to meet entrepreneurs from across the world almost on a daily basis.

Our idea is to make the U.K. a privileged partner of the E.U.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

I would like to congratulate my partners in peace - Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister - on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

I don't have a problem with anybody or with any institution.

Israel has a problem not because of the perception that the entire world is against us, but because of the government's problematic policies.

I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.