Quotes About Diplomacy

We want to have diplomatic engagement with the North Koreans.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.

She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun to figure out how her mind worked. But she was damn well going to live long enough for him to try.

We were obviously going to have to have a talk about the difference between "maintaining security" and "being a dick.

Un-soft answers only worsen the mama drama in my house. And they don't win many points with my coworkers or neighbors either. When we give an un-soft answer, we drizzle a little gasoline on the tiniest spark of a potential spat. It may combust and flare, setting off a big old blaze. However

Winston would now have to work with the new president, a man named Harry Truman whom we had met briefly

Everything is negotiable if the correct pressure is applied.

Wars need rules!" "Wars need to be won!

We have an understanding. I don't laugh at his skirt, and he doesn't rip my head off." -Fi Skirata

It's unfortunate in that it's only a step away from mere name-calling,

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe the lies when they see them in print.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.