Quotes About Diplomacy

I will do whatever it takes to help settle peace on the Korean Peninsula.

The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.

The United States and the D.P.R.K. will not overcome a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula through the course of a single Saturday.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That's all to the good.

The ability of the president to be perceived as someone with whom all Israelis can identify depends on his ability to avoid being a party to debate.

Nepal is our closest neighbour, and we must make every effort to ensure that, as a small neighbour, we attend to their perceptions. Even when they are wrong, we have an obligation to create an environment in which the common people in Nepal feel that in India they have a great friend.

Performing abroad is ambassadorial.

Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

Black people shouldn't have permanent friends or enemies: they should have permanent interest.

I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.

Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

India has a legitimate right to becoming a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.

We want peace to be permanent.

NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.

I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

Every State which breaks the equilibrium in its own favor only causes the other States to combine against it, and thereby diminishes its influence and power.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

Conferences are assemblies of people who argue about how to conduct an argument and end by sending a telegram of congratulation to the minister.

Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon? answered at last, 'He, Sir, that is the least like you'.