Quotes About Diplomacy

It was only in 1893 that Britain had seen fit to upgrade its legation in the American capital to the status of a full embassy. Now, less than a generation later, European history seemed to hang on the posture that Washington would adopt towards the war.

Making peace is harder than making war.

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

You cam build only when you have first created the political conditions for it.

It is really unjust to the Vienna governmental circles to reproach them with having instigated a war which might have been prevented. The war was bound to come. Perhaps it might have been postponed for a year or two at the most. But it had always been the misfortune of German as well as Austrian diplomats that they endeavoured to put off the inevitable day of reckoning, with the result that they were finally compelled to deliver their blow at a most inopportune moment.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion.

I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there.

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

The nation of Italy has a great, great friend in Chris Paul.

For no good reason, George W. Bush and the best and brightest he could muster, including the likes of Paul Bremer and Paul Wolfowitz, decided it made sense to attack Iraq.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

When America pays lip service but little more to horrors like the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, instead proclaiming convenient but arbitrary loopholes in our moral obligations, we just give the world's worst bullies more ammunition and power.

You don't make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

You don't kill your way to peace.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.

We want a full peace, normalization in all fields.