Quotes About Diplomacy

Countries often prioritise economic interests over human rights - hence all the kowtowing to China.

I have long been an advocate for peace and human rights in Canada and around the globe.

Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends.

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

Hungary needs Russia.

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

But Palmerston feared that a new, unified Germany at the heart of Europe would alter the balance of power and threaten English interests as a free Hungary or a republican Spain could not.

In view of the consistently violent aggression of the German Empire between 1860 and 1918, Palmerston's prescience is remarkable.

But Albert's overriding international mission was the reunification of Germany under Prussia, so he did not come to the defense of little Denmark when Prussia made moves to swallow up the Danish duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.

Never offend an enemy in a small way.

Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth

presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is called politics; when a president lies successfully, he is called a statesman.

President Roosevelt provoked the Japanese to attack us at Pearl Harbor.

Now the war is over. Or is it? Can we afford to give up our – well, cozy unremitting war? Why not – ah, tye brilliance, the simplicity! – instead of shrinking, expand our phantom empire in Europe by popping everyone into NATO? No reason to have any particular enemy, though, who knows, if sufficiently goaded, Russia might again be persuaded to play Great Satan in our somewhat dusty chamber of horrors.

I think, sir, that a war, in the name of the Monroe Doctrine, will unite them to us.

and so his secretary of state, Acheson, was told to wait until February 1949, after the election, to present to Congress our changeover from a Western Hemisphere republic to an imperial European polity, symmetrically balanced by our Asian empire, centered on occupied Japan and, in due course, its tigerish pendant, the ASEAN alliance.

International politics is not unlike the jungle: smaller and weaker animals require acute intelligence, sensitive antennae, and nimbleness of footing to assure their own self-preservation; the strong—such as elephants—need pay less attention to ambient conditions and can often do as they wish, and others will get out of the way.

Take Islam out of the equation, and there's a very good chance you'd still find the Middle East at loggerheads with the West.

This is European duplicity, Pyle. We have to make up for our lack of supplies.

He's a superior sort of journalist—they call them diplomatic correspondents. He gets hold of an idea and then alters every situation to fit the idea.

War was not an option. Radios, trucks and automobiles, planes and missiles and bombs, were just not reliable. A few Middle Eastern countries carried on feuds, but without much enthusiasm.

For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests

carefully negotiated his way

A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life