Quotes About Diplomacy

I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

Money, or its equivalents, are essential in war as well as in peace.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Those who hated the crimes of Pinochet closed their eyes when the same crimes were committed by Castro. The posture of many countries was governed by their hostility against the United States, and they excused Castro out of a reflexive anti-Americanism. (The enemy of my enemy is my friend.) These political games still take place today.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

Some may cite the 2020 U.S.-Taliban agreement as a reason not to take this step. But the Taliban never honored the agreement, continuing to work closely with al Qaeda and intensifying murderous attacks on Afghan civilians. Why should the U.S. adhere to an agreement that the other party has abrogated?

It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.

Almost no one is ever insulted into agreement.

Rule 2. Don't attack or insult. Don't even try to win.

We can't just pop off and drop a bomb on North Korea and think everything's going to be OK. It just doesn't work like that. It's a complicated puzzle.

Assad has to be removed, and then you have to actually put someone in that is a qualified leader that can start to build some trust in that area.

What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.

Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I'll do that.' She's all about courtesy.

If you're the Queen you don't need to say anything and you don't get into trouble. If you're the Duke of Edinburgh you say a lot of things, sometimes too many, and you do get into trouble.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

But if it happens that we will need one day the help of other countries, help in organizing this, maybe mediation or negotiation, of course any country that would like to help us with this question is invited.

I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.