Quotes About Diplomacy

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

Dev-"Come in peace or leave in pieces

Hasn't it always been like this?' asked Charlotte. 'Haven't they always been games that empires play with one another?' 'Maybe,' answered Lord Ingram. 'But it can take a queen-and-country sort like me a while to work that out.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.

We may soon find that peace is made possible not through negotiation but through innovation.

When Israel was weak, I worked to make her fierce. But once she was strong, I gave my life's efforts to peace.

Peace is a purpose—a goal worthy of the chase, while war is a function—born out of reluctant necessity.

I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

We are not interested in dialogue for the sake of dialogue.

Hitherto, there was a thinking in Japan that it is okay just to look inside Japan in order to secure peace for our own country, not shedding our eyes to the outside world. Of course, this thinking is in the process of changing.

On the relations between Japan and China, we see the political and economic relations between our two countries as the tandem wheels of a vehicle and they both need to work properly.

What is unfortunate, however, is that in the case of China, teaching patriotism is also teaching anti-Japanese sentiment.

A win for the American economy is a win for the Japanese economy.

Because there is a problem that exists, the doors for communication between the two nations should not be closed. Japan always keeps our door for communication open. I'd like China to take the same attitude.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?