Quotes About Diplomacy

North Korea has declared its own time zone that they are calling 'Pyongyang Time,' and set their clocks back half an hour. So if it's say, 11:40 here now in New York, in North Korea it's still 1925.

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

The basis of association and antagonism among countries has changed over time.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.

Maybe the words are the same, but the time is not the same. Iranians weren't working on achieving nuclear energy.

Naturally the U.S. trails in gold medals because every time we win one, we hand it over to the Chinese to pay off our debt.

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

In my entire time in Washington, I treated everyone with respect, with civility.

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

Canada thinks we're married; we don't know it exists. Every time we tell Canada to knock it off, it just feeds the fire.

If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.

Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.

You cannot have an integrated world and have your say all the time. America can lead the world towards that, but we cannot dominate and run the world in that direction. There is a big difference.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.

I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time.

It's always a difficult time to be secretary general.

The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?