Quotes About Diplomacy

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

Those who think that through concessions they will gain respect and peace are wrong. It's the other way around; it will lead to more wars.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as possible.

President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

Little wars start big wars.

The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.

Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings.

Middle Eastern wars rarely end with outright victory and permanent stability, so the word 'settlement' may promise too much. At best, for many years, it may simply mean stable ceasefire lines, reduced bloodshed, fewer refugees, and less terrorism.

Israel does not start wars.

Wars are not a choice we make for no reason.

Israel is the only country in the world that is ready to make compromises - even though it did not lose any wars.

In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

I can't think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It's where there was an absence of democracy and a breakdown of democracy that we finish up with these wars.

If there's Cold War, no 'Star Wars' in China.

I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.