Quotes About Diplomacy

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

I like David Cameron. He has had a couple of rough statements, but that's okay, I think David Cameron's a good man.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.

One would think that man would run out of wars.

I would not be happy. If North Korea does a nuclear test, I will not be happy. And I can tell you also, I don't believe that the president of China, who is a very respected man, will be happy either.

There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

George H. W. Bush is gracious. And I'm not saying any of the former presidents aren't gracious, I'm just saying, this man is gracious.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

An armed man need not fight.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.'

As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

President Obama was in India yesterday visiting our jobs. Tomorrow he goes to China to visit our money.