Quotes About Diplomacy

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

I could have said some things about Hillary Clinton that would have been unfortunate for her, too. But I don't want to interfere.

The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

We have this rising nation China. And one of the things we want to do is make sure that China's neighbors are actually bound to us, bound to the United States.

We must persuade Iran not t have nuclear weapons through peaceful and diplomatic means. We want a peaceful planet.

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

India has always wanted friendly ties with its neighbours, there can be no debate around it. We want to live in harmony and peace.

All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think they would end up losing.

Donald Trump is the one who said if somebody really wants an arms race, we'll drown him.

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.

As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters.

Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.