Quotes About Diplomacy

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps.

Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process.

I have no doubts, by the way, that Ariel Sharon really wants to move the peace process forward.

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.

So many mouths can get fed, so many minds can be nourished, if India and Pakistan resolve the Kashmir issue through a Kashmiri-owned, Kashmiri-led peace process.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

I believe in peace. Only peaceful co-existence can ensure peace.

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

Only a strong America can guarantee a peaceful world.

Following its peaceful reunifica'tion in 1990, Germany was on track to become an economic giant that had little in the way of foreign policy.

Some friends of Israel believe that the Palestinians will never, in their hearts, accept a Jewish state in Palestine. Yet Germans and French, Chinese and Japanese, Mexicans and Americans have overcome their once insurmountable differences. Palestinians and Jews also have much to gain from peaceful coexistence.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a secure way.

The U.N. must have adequate resources and the right capabilities to fully engage in global peacekeeping.

I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

I've always been a peacemaker.

By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

It's never my goal to throw any of my peers under the bus.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.