Quotes About Diplomacy

The United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems and not, in part, the maker of their problems.

The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in international affairs.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.

Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'

I don't know why people are surprised the French don't want to help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France.

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.

Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror.

When we export energy, we export American influence overseas. As I travel around the world, I know that there are people that want to buy energy from America.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.

None of us wants any more war.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you're talking to and what they actually want, this is North Korea in the making.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

If you're someone from the government and you meet people from other countries, you want to know who you're dealing with. It's the same for them [in Valerian].

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.