Quotes About Diplomacy

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Never say things to friends which you don't want to hear from enemies.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.

I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country - all you do is kill millions of people.

I'm going to keep speaking out about what Donald Trump says, because I'm getting messages from leaders around the world who are just bewildered. They want to know what's going on.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran.

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.