Quotes About Diplomacy

The historian Will Durant calculated that there have only been twenty-nine years in all of human history during which a war was not underway somewhere.

There are "no permanent enemies, no permanent allies, only permanent interests,"23 Saul Alinsky often said, paraphrasing the British prime minister Lord Palmerston.

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.

I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed.

First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

What we need is a good salesman for Mississippi, someone who can effectively represent our interests.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

I want to use the good name of my father George Bush to build a better relationship between the U.S. and China. There are so many misunderstandings and there is a lot to do.

I want to use but not misuse my position as President of the General Assembly.

I do not mix up Bush's America with the American people. The American people are our friends.

When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.

You're shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

A constitutional monarchy requires the monarch to be above politics but to be fully informed about politics.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

I think we have a political and moral duty to do everything within our power to maintain the Good Friday Agreement.

In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.