Quotes About Diplomacy

When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.

Later in life, I learnt that in order to deal with people, one has to be gentle and give them respect. That always works.

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.

George Bush is trying to play it both ways.

George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the side of the free nations.

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.

A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.

Our friends are happy with the CPEC project, while the enemy is quite unnerved due to this gigantic project.

Today the search for a new global order is under way.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.

I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

When you are close allies and good friends, like Denmark and the U.S. are, there should also be room for disagreements along the way.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Mr. Hunter not only congratulated me upon my speech, but at parting, gave me a friendly grip, and added that if Robert E. Lee were alive and present, he knew he would give me his hand also.

When de Gaulle and Bohlen met at the Elysee a few days after the coup the French leader spoke in harsh tones. You will be blamed for the deaths of Diem and Nhu, he told the American. You may do and say what you like; no one will believe you. It is you who will be held responsible.

November 1963, the administration adhered firmly to the position that the insurgency in the South had to be defeated and that no diplomacy should be undertaken until that result was ensured. Negotiations should be entered into only when there was nothing to negotiate. Note here that American officials were not merely skeptical of what negotiations might bring; they were downright fearful of the likely results.