Quotes About Diplomacy

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

Now is not the time for making new enemies.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

Ronald Reagan reached out to Gorbachev. At the same time, we were pushing back against the Soviets all over the world. He was able to do two things at once, and it worked out very well for us.

We can't speak day after day about globalization without at the same time having in mind that...we need multilateral solutions.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

What counts is a way to get along with people that will bring us personal satisfaction and, at the same time, not trample upon the egos of those we deal with.

Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.