Quotes About Diplomacy

I don't remember threatening anybody, ever. I don't like threats. I don't respond well to them, so I don't give them. But I'm not a doormat. I try to meet the appropriate level of communications.

In my experience, bad actors respond to threats of military action or sanctions.

The U.S. diplomacy in trying to bring around small-undecided nations to support its resolution to attack Iraq has been marked by threats and blandishments. The blandishments held out are a piece of the pie of the post-war reconstruction of Iraq.

Obama's foreign policy has three parts: Abandon our allies, appease our enemies, and apologize for America.

Endorsing Ronald Reagan in 1980, Kissinger threw in with America's new militarists, who would jump-start a revived Cold War and drive to retake the Third World.

I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.

I think we have a thriving economic engine between not only the U.S. and Mexico but the U.S. and many, many other countries.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

Maintenance of good relations with the neighbours, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life.

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.

Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics.

I don't have any reasons to be disrespectful or throw anybody under the bus.

The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.

Mitt Romney claims Mr. Obama has 'thrown allies like Israel under the bus,' but in fact the president has taken concrete steps to make Israel more secure - a commitment he has described as 'not negotiable.'

Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election.