Quotes About Diplomacy

We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.

Being British, we tend to think of ourselves as America's best friend. And as your best friend, that gives us a little bit of license to point out things that could have been handled better.

Our foreign aid to other nations should never be used to harm.

It may sound like showing off, but I am good in communications and in creating harmony.

Trump has the opportunity to be the president who, like Harry Truman, redirected U.S. foreign policy for a generation.

I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

I would never criticize a judge just because he or she presides in another state, including Alabama.

No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

I don't see any situation where Israel will not be sitting on the Golan Heights.

As David Cameron so brutally found out in 2015-16, there is limited appetite in Brussels to be helpful or flexible towards Britain.

The chief job of foreign policy today is helping to figure out the rules for the global economy and defending each nation's interests within it.

Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great.

My basic advice to the Chinese with respect to the South China Sea is, 'Hey, guys, cool it.'

It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'

We have to remember that Arafat was the one that started with hijacking airplanes already in 1968.

Anything but Hillary Clinton. Because I think Hillary Clinton means war.

Whenever I was able to work with Hillary Clinton, it was a great pleasure.

I am not one of those people who has contempt for Hillary Clinton. I think she's served our nation. I think there are things that she's done that are very good.

I think there is a failure in foreign policy. And you have to acknowledge that under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton was the architect of that foreign policy. Whether it was malevolent or not, I don't know.

And then peace broke out. It seems surprising, in view of what had been and what would one day follow, but there now began an era of tranquillity between England and Scotland, and consequently along the Border, which was to endure almost uninterrupted for nearly two hundred years.