Quotes About Diplomacy

diplomacy by "balance of fear.

Roosevelt has no problem with this; he likes Joseph Stalin and believes he can trust him.

calling the Soviet Union

If you have not lost your self-control, and sensibly conceive what this might lead to, then, Mr. President, we and you ought not to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And a moment may come when that knot will be tied so tight that even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot.

The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to grow unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. This nation is opposed to war. We are also true to our word. Our unswerving objective, therefore, must be to prevent the use of these missiles against this or any other country and to secure their withdrawal or elimination from the Western Hemisphere.

Yet it is America that now commits the unconscionable act of deferring to Russia at the expense of Britain—in effect, killing England. Winston

President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.

Singapore needs to be able to continue to add value to China in order for the relationship to be worthwhile for both sides.

A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

I would never want Ukraine to be a piece on the map, on the chessboard of big global players, so that someone could toss us around, use us as cover, as part of some bargain.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

The louder the cannon, the deafer the peacemakers.