Quotes About Diplomacy

When someone is wearing a dress that makes her look fat, don't say 'That's a great dress.' It always comes off badly.

I'm not going to say that the problems of my government, or those of Bolivia, are the fault of the United States. But they could have done a little more to help us.

When anyone in Washington asks for a favor, no matter how little the favor means to you, act pained and get as much as you can in exchange - even if the person asking is the president of the United States.

We are all in favor of the U.S. taking an active and constructive interest in Asia.

As a developing country, China needs a favorable neighbouring and international environment for its modernisation.

I'm in favour of a multi-polar world. I believe that every country has the right to defend its own interests.

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.

For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

Russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the Russian Federation.

We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

For more than fifty years, our policy towards Cuba was not making life better for Cubans. In many ways, it was making it worse.

If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that's his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone.

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

In an age of reckonings, when so many bills have come due, Obama has made the case for an America that can no longer do it all. It must pick its fights.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

I think there's a very fine line on guys saying stuff because you don't want to be disrespectful. That's not the point of it. But you also do need to - there's nothing wrong with saying what's on your mind.

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.

You can't put out fire with fire.

I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.

My dad was one who - he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.

Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.