Quotes About Diplomacy

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

War is the remedy for peace.

Herodotus is said to have remarked, 'Every year we send ships at great cost and danger as far as Africa, to ask "Who are you? What are your laws? What is your language?"' Why is it, he asked, 'they never send ships to ask us'?

He charged me about £50 and in fifteen minutes I had a genuine Somali diplomatic passport, bearing my own name and photograph. No checks, no birth certificate, of course. I still have the passport, and it remains one of my strangest travel souvenirs.

The only man to shake hands with Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Roosevelt and Churchill, Molotov was Stalin's closest ally. Nicknamed "Stone-Arse" for his indefatigable work rate, Molotov liked to correct people ponderously and tell

I apply not my sword when my lash suffices nor my lash when my tongue suffices. And even if but one hair is binding me to my fellow men, I don't let it break. When they pull, I loosen, if they loosen I pull.

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

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Daily we preach the phrase United nations and daily we advance our war weapons. What a shame.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

Politicians neither love nor hate.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

I respect the government of Mexico. I respect the people of Mexico. I love the people of Mexico. I have many people from Mexico working for me. They're phenomenal people.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.

There's one place where (Fidel Castro's) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

Let me tell you that I love the United States.