Quotes About Diplomacy

I think we've been able to establish good relationships with people on President Trump's team, and that gives us an opportunity to do better than what most people expect in terms of the relationship. And we are working towards that on many fronts, particularly on trade.

The League of Nations could've been something really, really big... it wasn't. A lot of guys were frustrated about it in a way.

Suddenly the thought struck MacVeagh: President (Mark) Hollenbach must not be allowed to go into the conference with Zuchek (Russian premier). My God, Mark might be capable of anything. Who knew what Zuchek, a patient, steel-nerved negotiator, utterly devoted to Russia's self-interest, vs Hollenbach, whose once brilliant mind now was obsessed with fancied tormentors and played like a child's with the toy blocks of destiny.

Who knew what fantastic secret agreement might emerge from such a meeting?

It seems we will be offered a choice between dishonor and war. I suspect we shall take dishonor—and get war afterward, as a kind of dessert." Roosevelt

Pamela slipped her arm around Churchill's shoulders. "Try not to mind, darling. Americans don't mean to be beastly and offensive. They simply can't help it. They're like rude children playing at soldiers—they've no notion how deadly serious it all is.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

Often, I must speak otherwise than I think. That is called diplomacy.

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.

peace encourages aggressions, thus igniting war.

Often I must speak otherwise than I think," he said. "This is called diplomacy.

It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.

Celui qui gouverne doit apprendre à convaincre et non à obliger.

do not want another world war.'172 The mood was less upbeat in other quarters. Even the British ambassador Nevile Henderson, who had previously been quite admiring of Hitler, admitted to having the 'utmost misgivings' as to whether Hitler would honour the Munich Agreement.

Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.

Next time I come here, he said to himself, I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with.

The Cold War was wildly expensive and consumed the entire globe.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'