Quotes About Diplomacy

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this — no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

I am fixed in awe at the mighty conflict to which two great nations are advancing, and recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands, & of the labor of millions of our fellow-creatures?

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.

It was only after the Second World War, when the US became top dog and liberalized its trade, that countries like France came to look protectionist.

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.

Nobody is a permanent friend,nobody is a permanent enemy. Everybody has his own self-interest. Once you recognise that, everybody will be better off.

Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

The Israeli concept that security is its exclusive right somehow generates the U.S.-enforced notion that the Palestinians are obligated to deliver security to the Israelis while Israel delivers death and destruction with impunity to the Palestinians.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

In the words of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: "There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

May God bless and keep all soldiers, young and old, and may that same God open the eyes of all political leaders to the truth that most wars are a confession of failure—the failure of diplomacy and negotiation and common sense and, in most cases, of leadership.

War is absolutely the last card any national leader should play, and only when every other alternative has been exhausted. If the hand was being played by an old soldier, a war veteran, I can assure you he would guard that war card to the bitter end and play it reluctantly and with the fear and trepidation of experience.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the clich

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing