Quotes About Diplomacy

BJP should direct our Ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian clothes while abroad. In coat and tie, they look like waiters.

I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.

Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.

It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American pressure to go to the negotiating table by waiting to see if Arab League foreign ministers will let him take that step.

I am waiting for the day when the German Bundestag debates the violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia.

Now, the people that helped get Obama elected, who think Israel is a good idea, need to wake up and tell him they're our friends, let's preserve them. And then it would happen. Because that's the only kind of thing he responds to. But he throws our friends under the bus and rewards our enemies.

The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp David. Arafat walked away from it.

As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians.

We've walked away from our treaty obligations in Ukraine, putting NATO at risk.

There were about 400 heads of state from countries all over the world. I walked out and played 'Hotel California,' and everybody in the place gave me a standing ovation, and half of those countries don't even speak English.

For President Bush, the first, the 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush, I spent all 4 years of his presidency on the staff for the National Security Council.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

There is a theory that China will tend to push, and if you bend, they will push some more.

I'll tell you one thing about Donald Trump: There will never be a Benghazi in a Donald Trump administration.

Americans, for their part, must accept that a strong Europe will not be content to simply do America's bidding.

I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that.

The U.S.-China relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world.

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.