Quotes About Diplomacy

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.

No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.

I want you to know that I don't have any right, Malawi has no right to stop any president from coming to an African Union summit because that is an African Union meeting.

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them - lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.

We would like Serbia to become a member of the European Union as quickly as possible.

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

We've stated very clearly that no negotiating chapters between the European Union and Turkey will be concluded before the Ankara Protocol is complied with: that's to say before Turkey grants all E.U. member states, including Cyprus, access to its ports.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.

If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.

Kissinger celebrants inevitably point to two things to justify their admiration: an opening to China - 'rapprochement' - and improved relations with the Soviet Union - detente - which included SALT, a historic arms-limitation treaty.

It's humiliating for Barack Obama and, therefore, the United States to have American sailors held hostage during his final State of the Union.

Turkey must feel at ease. It mustn't say, 'For me, it's the European Union at all costs.' That's my view.

If the European Union wants to be an address where civilizations meet, it must take Turkey in.

If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.