Quotes About Diplomacy

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

There's no prospect that the Russians are going to send Snowden back. Snowden is in the land of spy swaps now. Putin is not going to give this guy up for nothing.

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

Spying on the prime minister of Israel and Congress has nothing to do with national security - only politics.

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

Just as I don't like it when other coaches question my squads and my line-ups, I won't talk about others.

I was with a Navy F-18 squadron, and I know a single squadron could finish off the entire Sudanese air force in a day.

You don't have to use aggression to squash somebody. You have to use your brain.

If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

Having served in both Pakistan and India, I'm familiar with how their nuclear armament influenced regional stability.

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.

True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.

The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.

The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.

A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

Conflict does not lead to stability in the world.

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

We in Israel certainly have a great interest in seeing peace, stability, and security restored to Egypt. We want nothing more than peace for the Egyptian people. We're not going to get involved in how Egypt, how the Egyptians should run themselves. That's an internal Egyptian affair.