Quotes About Diplomacy

In any case as long as there is oil in the middle east they will never have peace

I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.

De todas formas, mientras haya petróleo en oriente medio, no conoceremos la paz.

Sitting cross-legged on the rug, puffing on a pipe, wearing a fat gold Rolex on his wrist, Khamenei asked the colonel, "If we were to release all of you now, without any conditions, how long would it be before you could begin to supply us again with spare parts for our military forces?

At the very least, Vietnam should stand as a permanent caution against going to war for any but the most immediate, direct, and vital national interest, or to prevent genocide or wider conflict, and then only in concert with other countries.

You could send in your bleeding-heart do-gooders, you could hold hands and pray and sing hootenanny songs and invoke the great gods CNN and BBC, but the only way to finally open the roads to the big-eyed babies was to show up with more guns. And in this real world, nobody had more or better guns than America. If the good-hearted ideals of humankind were to prevail, then they needed men who could make it happen.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Vietnam became the case in point. In a letter to Diem in 1961, Kennedy wrote, "We are

So for Ho, the point of war was to force the United States to negotiate.

The United States should interact with other nations realistically, first, not on the basis of domestic political priorities. Very often the problems in distant lands have little or nothing to do with America's ideological preoccupations. Beware of men with theories that explain everything. Trust those who approach the world with humility and cautious insight.

The invitations to the New Year's Eve party at the American embassy in Saigon would read, "Come see the light at the end of the tunnel.

The Geneva Accords called for elections in 1956 to reunite the country. But as it became apparent that Ho's Communist government had overwhelming popular support—Eisenhower later estimated that if the elections had been held in 1954, Ho would have captured 80 percent of the vote13—South Vietnam's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, reneged on the election. The United States, which had not been a party to the Geneva Accords, continued to back Diem

We have nobody in Washington that sits back and says, 'You're not going to raise that fucking price!'" And the Chinese: "Listen, you motherfuckers, we're going to tax you 25 percent!

It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.

Mark Kurlansky

Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer

nuclear deterrents.

So instead of unilateral Bush cowboyism, we elected President Outreach, a man happy to apologize for the entirety of American policy pre-January 2009. How's that working out?

Under 'Reasons for Leaving Last Job', never give the real reason, unless it's money or ambition.

But, like some other undiplomatic ambassadors, in her desire to be civil, she ran at once to the extremity of the permitted concessions.

Then John Morton made up his mind that he would never ask another American Senator to his house.

He did not tell Phineas, in so many words, that he was proposing to make an ass of himself.

In short, throughout the eighteenth century the English were regularly involved in wars with Catholic France and Catholic Spain.

Napoleon had said on the eve of his invasion in 1812: 'Avant deux mois, la Russie me demandera la paix.

We make war that we may live in peace.