Quotes About Diplomacy

when the complexity of the leaders' speeches declined, war followed.

no two countries with a McDonald's have ever fought in a war.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

How I learned to love the New World Order.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.

Who cares if you are prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?

La paz duerme a la sombra de las espadas

Cuba and Belgium are both countries of modest size, surrounded by large, powerful and often hostile powers.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Had Marshal Foch accepted Matthias Erzberger's plea to stop the fighting on November 8 while negotiations were under way, likely, 6,750 lives would have been spared and nearly 15,000 maimed, crippled, burned, blinded, and otherwise injured men would instead have gone home whole. All this sacrifice was made over scraps of land that the Germans, under the armistice, were compelled to surrender within two weeks.

Before them stood a small, erect man who fixed them with a withering gaze, Marshal Ferdinand Foch. After cool introductions, Foch opened the proceedings with a question that left the Germans agape. "Ask these gentlemen what they want," he said to his interpreter. When the Germans had recovered, Erzberger answered that they understood they had been sent to discuss armistice terms. Foch stunned them again: "Tell these gentlemen that I have no proposals to make.

if there was any job in the world that could kill you, it was corralling all the assholes in Washington you needed to get something done. "The

The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.

Politics is a game of friends.

They stay for each other .The Americans don't leave because the Russians-"He stopped. "But of course they'll have to. It's not reasonable,"he said, a French use of word. "Why would the Russians stay? If Germany were neutral. Not a threat anymore.

Was hätte es schließlich genützt, die "ultimative Waffe" abzuwerfen und dann nicht einmal den Anruf des kapitulierenden Feindes entgegennehmen zu können?