Quotes About Diplomacy

In Syria, while secretary of state, Clinton watched as United Nations resolution after U.N. resolution failed. She accomplished nothing except to repeat the refrain, 'Assad must go.'

I worked at the United Nations.

If Israel did not exist, the United Nations would go out of business.

I grew up thinking that I would be an ambassador secret agent. From age 14 to right before I graduated college, I was really interested in the foreign service and the United Nations. I learned to speak French, Turkish, and all these things.

At the United Nations, that's the number one comment I get is they're just so happy to see the United States lead again.

We need a relevant and efficient United Nations.

I am totally committed to the cooperation between the African Union and the United Nations.

We are now changing the culture at the United Nations. And with that, we're changing the culture in the world in the discussions that we're having.

Indeed, it is a common goal to create a stronger United Nations able to meet the multitude of expectations placed upon it. To that end, I will facilitate a constructive, informed, and open interaction among Member States and with the Secretary-General.

What keeps me awake at night is the issue of relevance of the United Nations.

When Barack Obama was running for president, he committed to leading the United Nations and other countries towards a common global goal. Obama believed that he could speak to allies and dictators directly and charm them into seeing the error of their ways.

Since the shock of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's death, I have been reflecting on what made him so special. To my mind, it is simply this: Kofi Annan was both one of a kind and one of us.

We in Britain do not have the same capabilities as the United States, but we are members of the United Nations Security Council. And we take our obligations and duties deriving from that very seriously.

El Salvador needs to be friends with the United States. It is an imperative for us.

I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

The United States took the lead in shaping the norms, rules and institutions of what became the liberal international order, including the United Nations, the international financial institutions and the Marshall Plan.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

Israel's existence rests on two pillars. Pillar one is its relationship with the United States. Pillar two is its army because if Israel didn't have the military power that it has, it would not exist.

I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.

Toyota has 10 plants in the United States... and employs more than 130,000 Americans. If I were Mr. Trump, I'd treat them with more respect.