Quotes About Diplomacy

the red-haired aesthete politician flashed a welcoming smile and extended a hand in greeting.

Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world.

As Frederick the Great said, diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments. As the president found her seat in the

We start talking about current events. I ask him, "What's the story about weapons of mass destruction?" "I wanted them." "Did you get them?" "No." "So why did you kind of lead everybody on that you had weapons of mass destruction?

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

Unfortunately, the international community is not ready to deal with Iran's repeated provocations.

The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.

Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible.

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

North Korea not only wants unification, it absolutely has to have unification. That's really the only way this state can feel secure.

Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification.

It is imperative the United States continues to demonstrate its commitment to a unified Iraqi.

The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable.

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.

I had the privilege of serving in uniform with British forces in Cold War Europe, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the greater Middle East.

I have a few uniforms - depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

I want to make clear, in the most emphatic way, that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept measures that, in a unilateral way, one government wants to impose on another. That we are not going to accept.

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

We must choose dialogue over confrontation, and peaceful settlement of disputes over unilateral acts of imposition.