Quotes About Diplomacy

It was gratifying to see how much one could accomplish in both politics and trade by liberally murdering the other fellow's soldiers.

Middle ground only comes in war after lots of people have died—and only after the important people are worried they might actually lose.

If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.

Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.

I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them. I

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

What there was no effective record of indeed was the small strange pathos on the child's part of an innocence so saturated with knowledge and so directed to diplomacy.

You Americans have such odd ways! the Baroness declared. You never ask anything outright; there seem to be so many things you can't talk about. ................. We don't like to tread upon people's toes (Chapter 6)

The "winners" seem to be people who not only are competent, but also have the ability to "negotiate" their way to get what they want.

His response to any question is a counter-question.

Power. The other side always seems to have more power and authority than you think you have.

It's analyzing information, time, and power to affect behavior … the meeting of needs (yours and others') to make things happen the way you want them to.

2. Almost everything is negotiable

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

we should never look on history as a period of peace peppered by outbreaks of war, but rather as a period of war peppered by outbreaks of peace.

I've always felt that the best way to get rid of any enemy is to make a friend of him. It's a policy that has stood me well in my years in public life.

I think that 20 years ago, not too many people would imagine a meeting - interesting meeting, a substantive meeting between the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the President of the United States.

America's promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That's one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

Two thousand years ago, we abandoned imperialism and militarism. We have been peace-lovers ever since.

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.

In 1957, which is now 57 years ago, my grandfather and then-Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi welcomed Prime Minister Menzies as the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Japan after World War II and drove the conclusion of the Japan-Australia Agreement on Commerce.

People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.