Quotes About Diplomacy

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

Israel is run by war criminals...

There are laws for peace as well as war.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

Peace is obtained by war.

Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war.

If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.

... a war always ends.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.

The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.