Quotes About Diplomacy

In the absence of an engaged, diplomatically energized America, others will set the agenda, shape the rules and dominate international institutions - and probably not in ways that advance our interests or values.

Britain must be the champion of international law.

If our interests - our legitimate interests, the interests of Russians - have been attacked directly, like they were in South Ossetia, for example, I do not see any other way but to respond in accordance with international law.

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

America's armed forces are an essential background to much of what the U.S. accomplishes internationally.

Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.

I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

America should always stand for human rights and freedom, but not through endless military intervention.

I don't find anything comes out of getting in someone's face during an interview and screaming.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

La Corée a été victime de sa singulière position stratégique, entre l'archipel japonais, la Mandchourie, la Sibérie et la Chine. Elle est l'exemple des dangers qui menacent les petits États au voisinage des grands qui se croient tout permis à leur endroit, aujourd'hui comme hier. Elle a comme l'Italie le malheur d'être un chemin naturel.

En política, como en todo, lo contrario de un golpe con el puño derecho no es un golpe con el puño izquierdo, sino un abrazo.

the United States is preparing a bloody drama for Latin America

War it has been said, is diplomacy continued by other means.

Se su di un confine non passano le merci, vi passeranno i cannoni.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.