Quotes About Diplomacy

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

After years of failure, I do think that President Trump has shown a lot of wisdom in reaching out his hand to the North Korean leader and to suggest to them that there might be a different future for the North Korean people.

Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

My suggestion and my recommendation is, to solve the problem in Korea, you need to solve that problem with China. It's a client state of China.

Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal... to suit its interests and international legal obligations.

Wars don't suit anyone.

We must not lose time, neither for dealing in a suitable way with the question of the United Kingdom's exit, nor for providing a new impetus for the E.U.

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C.

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

An early gesture was to rename Harrington Road after a hero of the world communist movement, so that at the height of the Vietnam War the address of the United States Consulate was 7 Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Calcutta.

A diplomatic statement ... is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it.

A diplomatic statement, Lena, is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it.

Yossarian nodded and listened to Milo tell him that the decent thing to do if he did not like the way Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn were running the group was to go to Russia, instead of stirring up trouble. Yossarian refrained from pointing out that Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn, and Milo could all go to Russia if they did not like the way he was stirring up trouble.

When Jefferson visited Adams in England in the spring of 1786, the two former revolutionaries were presented at court and George III ostentatiously turned his back on them both. Neither man ever forgot the insult or the friend standing next to him when it happened.