Quotes About Diplomacy

The time has come to develop integrated global policies.

We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.

The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

Every time I ask for visa, they (USA) give me visa for five years. I have never had any problem in getting a visa to any nation.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. Sometimes in the private interest of royal families, Satan said, sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose--there is no such war in the history of the race.

the easiest way to get along in life is to not cause too many quarrels

Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. Said

diplomacy is simply the name we have agreed to give to lying about national affairs. I

It was a new business to me, and I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says: "Yes; the little ones does.

If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it'd keep peace inside the family; and it warn't no need to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him.  If I in no way learnt not anything else out of pap, I learnt that the exceptional manner to get alongside along with his type of people is to let them have their personal way.

I know Mischa, but you know how the politburo runs. If I say one word of this in there, I'll be out of my job the next day.' Remember, Gorbachev only became general secretary after he had kept his mouth shut under three predecessors.

In 958, Ibn Shaprut mediated between the warring Christian kings of Leon and Navarre. As the caliphate's chief diplomatic adviser, fluent in the colloquial Latin of Christian diplomacy, he managed to bring the two kings to Cordova to sign a treaty in front of the Caliph. These linguistic skills had been seen seven years earlier, after Constantine VII sent the Caliph a copy of Dioscorides

He rejected the policy of seeking a direct accommodation with the Nazis at the expense of the smaller states of Europe.

That same day he wrote to Austen Chamberlain, to explain that he would soon have to ask for 'substantial repayments' of French and Italian war debts, already more than six years overdue.

We can avoid all this trouble by throwing up the sponge, by sitting still and putting up with being fleeced. Then there will be lots of compliments about the good feelings which we have established in Europe and about what a very agreeable and friendly nation we are. But I think this is a pretty thin diet to give to the taxpayers of this country in their present circumstances. The

Between 1956 and 1961 more than 35,000 Moroccan Jews left clandestinely for Israel under the auspices of the Mossad. In 1960, the same year that he masterminded the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, Isser Harel, travelled to Morocco as a tourist. His visit there convinced him that manyJews wished to leave, and he appointed Alex Gatmon to be in charge of the Mossad operations in Morocco, under Ephraim Ronel in Paris.

If I had two lives I would be a soldier and a politician. But as there will be no war in my time I shall have to be a politician.

We won that war, you know." "So I heard. Nasty business. But we're friends now.

the principal export of Great Britain to the United States IS the United States.

And now, resorting to the same old scare tactics, the same tired falsehoods and the same old fake news about nuclear weapons, it is gearing up to bomb Iran. That will be the biggest mistake it has ever made.

Everybody in the U.S... should force their country... please, don't, do this. [re Iran]

Dryly he noted that some individuals enjoyed every political gift except that of discretion.)

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.