Quotes About Diplomacy

In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

The Europeans do tend to delegitimize Israel and turn Israel into a dirty word, which is unforgivable.

I have come to fight for peace, and I will not give my hand to those who try to turn the word 'peace' into a dirty one.

We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

Dad knew how to disagree without being disagreeable or rude.

The enemies of peace have not disappeared.

I have been disappointed with the way the majority of my colleagues have approached war and peace over the entire time I've been in Congress.

I don't have any disparaging words about WWE.

Even though we may focus first on the rights of our own country, that does not mean that we should disregard the rights of everyone else.

I don't want people thinking I say disrespectful things to people.

I was not disrespectful to Valencia in any moment and I did not say anything that was out of this world.

Carving out our own role, distinct from America's, might not be easy. But we must ask ourselves: what alternative is there? Unthinking, uncritical loyalty to the U.S. under Donald Trump is a far less appealing idea.

I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

All our wealth and all our export power has also come by the fact that other nations were willing to see us. This is very important.

If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it - that's just not me.

I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'

We see West Asia as part of our extended neighbourhood.

You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well.

I didn't say Facebook could not enter China, but nor did I say that it could.

When you've won the war, you're faced with the problem of winning the peace.

My wife is from India, and I come to India a lot. I have never faced any security issue.