Quotes About Diplomacy

Many policemen have not completed their education, and the university can help them on this front. Education will enable them to speak well and politely to the people.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with Russia.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

We've even developed a new council with Canada to promote women's business leaders and entrepreneurs.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

Why do we take a dollar? Why do we give a dollar to countries that have no rights for women? We have to think about that.

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.

Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.

Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.