Quotes About Diplomacy

Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.

America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision.

A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.

Observers may bemoan the lack of personal chemistry between Obama and Netanyahu, but international relationships needn't be love affairs between leaders. They rest on common interests, common values and reciprocity.

The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.

If you throw obstacles at the relationship with Mexico, you would be shooting yourself in the foot.

If there is no peace in Central America, it will not be because Costa Rica, and myself as president, have not done what is necessary to obtain peace.

This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.

Obviously, we shouldn't be having any American officeholder or any American candidate looking for foreign nations to come in and be involved in U.S. elections.

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

Kennedy and Johnson had more to offer than bread alone. Initiatives such as the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress were intended to stimulate political as well as economic development.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

Had Chamberlain and the Europeans stood up to Hitler in 1938, rather than appeasing him, World War II might have been prevented and the death of 405,399 Americans might have been avoided.

Each power entered the Crimean War with its own motives. Nationalism and imperial rivalries combined with religious interests.

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

He was always just mad enough to take treaties seriously. Honor, you know. I don't have any.

We'd be at peace with every people on earth, if they'd let us. As long as we don't come to love war, or to use it in order to rule over others, then we are still a peaceful people.

Better to give the man what he wanted and save the objections for the battles worth fighting.

I had forgotten the first rule of diplomacy: Russians are never more cooperative than when they are about to betray you.

I think Russia agreed to it because they're facing a revolt of the Islamic States.

The Russians stopped being the bad guys back in the twentieth century!

War gets invented every time there's somebody so hungry for domination that he can't leave peaceful nations alone.