Quotes About Diplomacy

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

anyone can make a desert and call it peace...

Peace is the art of co-existence

We have a saying, my people. Don't kill if you can wound, don't wound if you can subdue, don't subdue if you can pacify, and don't raise your hand at all until you've first extended it".

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.

Words had to complete the work of the guns.

The administration is absolutely, and without a doubt, committed to the Abraham Accords.

Law is always better than war.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

The Barbary states were already at war with America, and they seemed to understand only one kind of diplomacy—the kind that was accompanied by a cannon.

Tired of Americans being captured and held for ransom, our third president decided to take on the Barbary powers in a war that is barely remembered today but is one that, in many ways, we are still fighting.

The Barbary powers, with their mixture of greed, religious fanaticism, and self-interest, would not listen to reason. They

As an ambassador and an American, Jefferson recognized it was a fear no citizen of a free nation embarking on an oceanic voyage should have to endure.

it would become increasingly clear that only one solution remained: those frigates would have to cross the ocean and try a different kind of diplomacy, one that came from the mouths of their cannons.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.

Israel is the only truly democratic, secular country in the Middle East, right in the middle of all of them.

In dealing with Islamic countries, insist on reciprocation or no deal. If they want to build a mosque or Islamic school in our country, we should be able to build a church and a Christian school in theirs

Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

The world of politics is dictated by rules.

Every type of politics could be addressed from the point of view of leaders trying to survive.

We cannot change the hearts of those people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country, still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.23