Quotes About Diplomacy

Canada was regarded as a hostage to restrain Britain,

Oversimplified perhaps, this in essence is the problem known to nineteenth-century diplomacy as the Eastern Question.

He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.

Planted firmly across the path of change, operating warily, shrewdly yet with passionate conviction in defence of the existing order, was a peer who was Chancellor of Oxford University for life, had twice held the India Office, twice the Foreign Office and was now Prime Minister for the third time. He was Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, ninth Earl and third Marquess of his line.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

to disagree one doesnt have to be disagreeable

A diplomatic conference, in Communist language, is a "propaganda forum from which to speak to the masses over the heads of their leaders.

During his consultations at the Kremlin, [Soviet ambassador Anatoly] Dobrynin had faced shock and incomprehension about Nixon's removal. 'They thought, how can the most powerful person in the United States, the most important person in the world, be legally forced to step down for stealing some documents?' he recalled.

Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face. Put yourself in his shoes—so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil—nothing so self-blinding.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face. Put yourself in his shoes—so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil—nothing is so self-blinding.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

Let me just say, I think there's a reasonable criticism to be made of the Obama administration on the way that it left Iraq.

I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

When China was only Communist, everyone received the Dalai Lama, but now that China is hyper-capitalist, he gets blacked out.