Quotes About Diplomacy

Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

As responsible politicians, you have to manage migration.

For more than fifty years, Americans and Cubans have been isolated from one another even though Cuba is only 90 miles away from Florida.

Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.

Military intervention is never the answer.

I mean, the United States has had an eighteen-year military commitment in Afghanistan, and frankly, I can't think of any country other than the United States which is even capable of such a commitment.

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

That Hillary Clinton can be president of the United States and a Saudi prince can donate $10 or $15 million dollars, let's say, to the Clinton Foundation and then have access for meetings and policy with the U.S. government, that is something that is very important to me.

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Let the French ministers take care of France; we will take care of Italy!

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.

Nuclear weapons can do it quickly. That makes a difference.

Coercion depends more on the threat of what is yet to come than on damage already done. The pace of diplomacy, not the pace of battle, would govern the action; and while diplomacy may not require that it go slowly, it does require that an impressive unspent capacity for damage be kept in reserve.