Quotes About Diplomacy

I'm a very good listener, and I'm not interested in having fights simply for a question of protocol or vanity.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

It's been proven in Washington: It's very hard to negotiate and try to get a deal done in public.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.

Would ye be wise, ye Cities, fly from war!

did not require the proposed sale of U.S. FX-15 fighter jets. At the end of their discussion, Reagan asked Lee Kuan Yew to carry the message to Taiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo that it would be difficult to supply all of Taiwan's requests and that President Chiang should not press for high-tech weapons at the moment, but that he, President Reagan, would not let Chiang down. A

does not refer to political rivalries

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars.

He doesn't want any trouble with ANYbody.

war is not just an act of policy but a true political instrument.

American legislators rarely think about the rest of the world when writing laws, regulations, and policies. American officials rarely refer to global standards. After all, for so long the United States was the global standard, and when it chose to do something different, it was important enough that the rest of the world would cater to its exceptionality.

For many decades, the world needed to learn from America. But now America needs to learn from the world. And what it most needs to learn about is government—not big or small but good government.

The political climate in Washington always pushes policymakers toward being "tough" rather than "soft"—which is a dangerous way to frame international affairs. The real question is, can they be smart rather than stupid?

Looking at the shape of international politics in the future, it's clear—bipolarity is inevitable. A cold war is a choice.

warriors and statesmen who survived believed that they had a duty to create a world that did not lapse back into nihilistic competition.

I don't mean to be rude, but

To explain is to disbelieve. Every philosophy is a diplomacy dressed up as eternity..... Like diplomacy, it has no real substance, existing not in its own right but completely and absolutely on behalf of some objective.

Siempre he sentido una repugnancia casi física por las cosas secretas, las intrigas, la diplomacia, las sociedades secretas, el ocultismo. Sobre todo siempre me han molestado estas dos últimas cosas: la pretensión que tienen ciertos hombres de saber, mediante un entendimiento con dioses o maestros o Demiurgos –entre ellos, excluidos todos nosotros–, los grandes secretos que son los fundamentos del mundo.

Crees tú que hay otro modo de acabar con esa locura que no sea el establecimiento de una autoridad a escala mundial con fuerza suficiente para disuadir a cualquier grupo de la afición a jugar a batallitas?

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.