Quotes About Diplomacy

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

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

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war.

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

Now were it up to me, I would abolish all warfare.

America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith.

The day after 9/11, we should have gone to Russia. We did the one thing that George Kennan warned us never to do - to expand NATO too far.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.

When somebody says, 'Oh, Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace', I stop them and say, 'No, I'm not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution'.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.