Quotes About Diplomacy

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

It shouldn't just be Russia we're concerned about, because many countries that are not our friends have been hacking into American accounts across the board.

Well honestly, I do stay away from being political, especially about Trump. It's just one of those things.

Nothing can justify war.

I don't have to justify myself every time I go to Israel.

We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.

From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States.

I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn't want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn't hurt each other.

I have never seen John Kerry give anything but an engineered response.

Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad.

The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.

People have to remember that the armed forces do as democratically elected governments tell them to do. They don't arbitrarily go into countries and kick off. These are decisions that are made by our politicians.

I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing.

I'll live longer than Kim Jong-un - he's fatter than me. He doesn't like me.

It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him.

We can have reunification if another power replaces Kim Jong Un. I don't know who it could be, but I hope and I believe another power, another person will be better.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.

I don't mind knife fights. I just want the knives to come to the front.

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.

Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That's got to stop. And we've got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.

In the end, North Korea's conduct may change only when its leadership does.

I would not say that the North Koreans will do anything that the Chinese want them to do.