Quotes About Diplomacy

If I had a choice, I'd rather not fight someone from Brazil, but as a professional, I couldn't say no.

You can disagree with someone and still do business as a professional.

I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

I am confident the Obama administration will work professionally with any Israeli government.

I'm too nice, way too nice. Personal relationships I am very much like that, but not professionally.

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.

Netanyahu's raison d'etre is to save Israel from Iran. That is it. That is his mission in the most profound sense. I have seen it up close.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

We applauded and endorsed the One Belt, One Road initiative and we are proud that together with China, we are implementing its flagship mega project - China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

The premise of Russian foreign policy to the West is that the rule of law is one big joke; the practice of Russian foreign policy is to find prominent people in the West who agree.

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.

I'm committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constructive interaction with the world.

United States forces have always relied on local allies to accomplish military and diplomatic missions and will need this support in the future. But why would anyone agree to help the United States if we have a record of breaking our promises and abandoning those who assist us?

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.

I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.

Denying that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel does nothing to promote peace - instead, it disrespects a longtime, helpful and humane ally in the Middle East.

It's amazing how many countries run their embassies as commercial outposts to promote businessmen from their country.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.