Quotes About Diplomacy

You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as president. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right.

In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.

I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

I will do everything I can to renew a new Rome-Berlin axis.

If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.

We are going to extend our frank hand to seek a relation of friendship - I repeat - of cooperation with the United States.

There will be no war repeated on the Korean Peninsula.

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

China itself has said repeatedly that they will and have been conforming to international law.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

In politics, you're safest when you're saying as little as possible. You're safest when you've got your talking points and you stick to them like glue, even if it means repeating yourself over and over.

President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice.

I don't think that anyone in the pages of 'War on Peace' is arguing that diplomacy is the replacement for military power. But, correctly, the job of the military is to think tactically.

The Lester B. Pearson era is what I hope to replicate.

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran had paused its nuclear weaponization work also reported with high confidence that such work had been going on through 2003. How far did they get? That's an important question, but I fear that the Iranians will never answer it, and we will not insist that they do.

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

I proudly represent Pakistan in India, and I hope that many more actors from there come and work here.

We are different from many African countries. We represent Africa as the gateway and will do everything to make African and Israeli relations mushroom.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.