Quotes About Diplomacy

?le jej z oczu patrzy - wyszepta?a, kiedy zyska?a pewno??, ?e nikt ich nie us?yszy. - Owszem. - I ksi??? si? jej s?ucha. - Owszem. - I trafi?a tu przed nami. - Owszem. [...] Ojciec Yarvi spojrza? na ni? z kwa?n? min?. - A widzisz? Jednak znasz si? na dyplomacji.

It's worth giving your enemies a chance. They know they can't expect one and might be thankful for it." Rikke frowned sideways. "Friends are much harder to please.

There can be no peace with the damn Vanstermen,

Where do we find allies?' Father Yarvi smiled. 'Among our enemies, where else?

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

If this phrase the 'balance of power' is to always be an argument for war, the pretense for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

Sir, when the love of peace degenerates into fear of war, it becomes of all passions the most despicable." —Senator Giles of Virginia, to President Thomas Jefferson, before the War of 1812

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

The Truman Doctrine was not a declaration of war, but the recognition of a cold war with the Soviet Union that had already begun.

Just as Churchill stood alone against Hitler's war machine in 1940, it would now be Harry Truman's government standing alone against Stalin's designs on Western Europe seven years later.

At six p.m., Washington time, the new state was declared in Palestine, and given the name of Israel. It could not survive without the recognition and support of the most powerful country in the world. At 6:11, the White House announced that the United States would do just that by recognizing Israel's existence. The Israeli nation was born, and America was the first to acknowledge it.

The Possibility of somebody emerging as a nuclear power or events happening that surprise us on the nuclear stage is still a possibility. It always will be because there's an awful lot going behind the scenes. Our intelligence just has to get better on the score. -Peter Goss.

They effectively gave us what amounts to $150 billion, and for what? To buy our assurances that we would stop enriching uranium for a decade? To rent our promise not to build any nuclear warheads? Why would we have said no? The whole thing was a farce. We were not even asked —how does the saying go? —to sign on the dotted line.

2 days to the U.N.

was that possible? The whole notion of State Department and CIA personnel being inside a country whose language they didn't speak seemed ludicrous to Charlie. How could one government understand another—much less build a healthy, positive, long-lasting relationship—without at least being able to talk in the other's heart language? It couldn't, Charlie knew, and now Washington was about to pay the piper.

When meeting with powerful people about things that matter,' he'd said, 'never play yourself down.

Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.

The main focus of the TRANSCEND method3 is not to merely identify who is guilty and punish those, the traditional legal approach, but to create an attractive new reality acceptable to all those involved.

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

He sent messengers ahead to meet Alexander and offered him half his kingdom and his daughter in marriage, if only he would agree not to fight. 'If I were Alexander, I'd take it,' said Alexander's friend, Parmenios. 'And so would I, if I were Parmenios,' was Alexander's reply.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.