Quotes About Diplomacy

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy

The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.

At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.

It is time to reinvigorate the UN General Assembly so that it can exercise a more decisive role in peace-making and peace-keeping, consistent with the will of the international community.

World peace is the most essential outer realization of our time.

Iran's nuclear program . . . there was going to be a time limit . . .

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.

I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

For the first time since 1979, we are talking to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama says talking to him is probably pointless, but it's a hell of a relief from Mitch McConnell.

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You'd have an allotted time.

I didn't say I would cut off all communication with [Vladimir] Putin. What I said was as president of the United States, now is not the time to talk with him.

It is time for the Chinese to make good on their word.

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

We can't be fighting everybody at one time.

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.