Quotes About Diplomacy

I'm a uniter, not a divider.

There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

I want to be the peace president.

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq with the war on terror.

Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

Eight days later he sent to Congress the most sweeping bill for civil rights up to that time, and urged it 'not merely for reasons of economic efficiency, world diplomacy and domestic tranquility—but above all because it is right.

This, I thought, was how the real power-play went: conversations in corners and gardens, nods, shrugs, inclinations of the head. But nothing in writing.

diplomacy. A dance of shadows in the darkness.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

I love peace, but it is because I love justice and not because I am afraid of war

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Mom offered to go over and smooth things out, but I think that Dad and I both realized that given her temper, her diplomatic mission might end up with a restraining order against our family.

Puede decirse, claro está, que el autor ha actuado aquí simplemente de manera diplomática, no para despreciar el Antiguo Testamento sino más bien para demostrar la superior bondad del Nuevo Testamento.

In London, Jean Monnet – who had by now risen to be head of the Anglo-French Coordination Committee, launched a daring, last-minute emergency plan: he wanted France and Great Britain to become one. A joint pool of shipping space had already been set up, just as in the First World War, but this time Monnet wanted to go much further. In a memorandum of less than five pages he proposed that the two countries become united: their armies, their

EVER SINCE 29 SEPTEMBER, 1938, discussions about war and peace in Europe have revolved around the same, fearful question: will this be a Sarajevo or a Munich? In other words: can a great deal of diplomacy achieve a shaky balance, or must evil be crushed by force? We know that, in both cases, a war was the result, we know that everything went wrong afterwards, but each time we come back to those two cities, those contrapuntal reference points for the twentieth

On Chiang Kai-Shek: "He's a son of a bitch but he's our son of a bitch."

Sometimes war is the only path to peace.

I've invented entire royal bloodlines—and, on a couple of occasions, entire countries—just to get into decent parties

but to keep your head low enough to avoid the political battles that make you inherently vulnerable. I have absolutely no interest in becoming one of the vps who just give each other PowerPoints all day long.

The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Self-restraint, which is a choice, is all that separates armistice and war.

global thermonuclear war