Quotes About Diplomacy

Turkey is doing an enormous amount in the refugee question, but it can't continue to pay for everything by itself. That is why we have to talk to Turkey about money.

At G-20 summit, I worked with US and other countries to bring black money back.

When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.

Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.

If money or military might would change that part of the world... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough.

Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

Good morning, people of the U.N.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Our troops are in Burundi. We were requested by African countries who said, look, the United Nations is not moving on this matter, can you people deploy people, so we can move Burundi forward.

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

The issues of political nature should be solved in any country, including in Syria, primarily by its people.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

I think above all, what we need with Iran is patience.