Quotes About Diplomacy

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of the Cold War, we lived through an artificial period in which American interests and European interests essentially dovetailed.

I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.

My view on working with any government in the world is that there are things that you will agree upon and things that you will not. And you don't want to let the things you don't mean that you don't have any interface.

We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.

I don't want to interfere in U.S. elections.

It is illegal to ask a foreign power to interfere in a domestic election.

You know that we are not in the regime-change game. We are against interference in domestic conflicts.

But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results.

I'd advise my American friends not to meddle in the internal affairs of China.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

Britain has national honor. It would not have allowed Israel to meddle in its internal affairs.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

I have set out to change the language of the international system.

Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

I do believe that the international community cannot act based on a rivalries or things of that sort.

I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.