Quotes About Diplomacy

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

AP. : Peut-on proclamer que nous restons neutres ? De Gaule : Il ne faut rien proclamer du tout. Et d'abord c'est faux ! Nous aidons les Marocains en leur fournissant des armes. Nous aidons les Algériens en mettant à leur disposition notre aérodrome de Colomb-Béchar. Nous les aidons à s'entre-tuer. Pourtant, il faut bien faire comme si nous étions neutres. [Le 23 octobre 1963]

L'Europe intégrée, ça ne pouvait pas convenir à la France, ni aux Français…. Sauf à quelques malades comme Jean Monnet, qui sont avant tout soucieux de servir les États-Unis. (Tome 2, Fayard, édition 1997) - p214

Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

What was Trotsky's quote? "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

I'm a diplomat, I make myself agreeable to some of the most vile people on earth

What would happen, Reshmina wondered, if the big countries stopped selling weapons to the little countries?

The first query had been merely technical; a check to see that the communication beam was still online. Later, the weapon had become more urgent; adopting tones of polite insistence. Now it was getting far less diplomatic, throwing the machine equivalent of a tantrum.

I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.

I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul. If you've got something you want, and that person who has it wants something in return, it quite literally becomes your job to find whatever it is that they want.

I think people see me as someone very much associated with political agreement and, probably more than anything else, being able to build a relationship with loyalist leaders Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson.

I never said finish the Congress, because the opposition is needed... I do not have such petty imaginations.

It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.

I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'

I hate picking a bone with Paul Ryan; he's a friend of mine, but I think he needs to walk and chew gum at the same time.

Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him.

When we're in the business of picking fights with our allies instead of working with them, that takes away from our strength in dealing with China.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.