Quotes About Diplomacy

I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did.

I want to thank the American people - on both sides of the aisle - for years of financial, diplomatic, and military support, and for helping us carry the burden of defense.

And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

A long time ago, when Korea was having a hard time, the Philippines came to Korea and helped the Korean people. We're very thankful, as a country.

Thankfully, the time where you buy and sell other countries and populations is over.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Margaret Thatcher and John Major knew that bluff and bravado doesn't work in Brussels.

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

Cease fire is the main and the most important precondition for launching an implementation of the Minsk agreement.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to.

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

That's the problem with the United States. It believes it can control everybody's behavior.

If Hamas wants to be part of the real world, it has to end up accepting Israel's right to exist.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

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