Quotes About Diplomacy

What I said to you was private. We can have private reservations about a person's work, but that doesn't mean to say that we have to spell those out to him. It's called tact, Isabel!

Those who are coerced by force become our enemies, those who succumb to reason become our allies.

In war, the only true victory is peace.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

The greatest channel to peace" he said, "[involves] talking about problems…. For as long as we have men, we are going to have differences. And it seems to me we can disagree without being disagreeable.

Never crush a man out, thereby making him and his friends permanent enemies of your organization.

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

Our relationship with Russia is worse now than it has ever been, and that includes the Cold War. There is no reason for this. Russia needs us to help with their economy, something that would be very easy to do, and we need all nations to work together. Stop the arms race?

Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and "smart!" You shouldn't be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!

Most uncomfortable! Did we lose anyone? Head count! Lee Ark, Leetu, and Brunstetter. Three. Should we count the meech egg? No, I think not. Don't drop it, Brunstetter. I'm to take it home and raise it. Ridiculous. Being a parent at my age. Where were we? Oh, yes, three. One o'rant, two kimens, two minor dragons. Eight. A librarian and a diplomat. Ten.

DON'T gang up on the other person and enlist others to your side just to prove that you're right. DON'T raise your voice. DON'T respond sarcastically. DON'T take a difference of opinion personally.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

Make coffee, not war,

Perhaps one sentence summed it up best, "The United States and China are locked in a cold tech war, and the winner will end up dominating the twenty-first century.

A seventeenth-century English politician once famously said, 'a diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country.

What you're doing would be like us allying with Russia against England, our closest friend.

a diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country.

Neville Chamberlain, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in a letter.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

They are an American Delegation who are doing a tour of the region to apologize for the crusades', said Arafat. Then he, and his guest, burst out laughing. They both knew that America had little or no involvement in the wars of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. But Arafat, at any rate, was happy to indulge the affliction of anyone who believed they had and use it to his own political advantage.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

politics are the curse of the Navy!

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.