Quotes About Diplomacy

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

I shall go to Korea.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

War settles nothing.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

The specific line here is that you must never question Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara, the land claimed in 1975 when 350,000 Moroccans marched into the then-Spanish territory, kicking off a war that lasted sixteen years and only strengthened the Moroccan government's resolve.

I happen to know that the State Department furnished the money for my son to return back to the United States,

When Robert irritated men of lofty station, they complained to the President, and

In America, our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.