Quotes About Diplomacy

When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

The United States emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented absolute and relative power. It was truly first among unequals.

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

It's unprecedented in the post-World War II era to have the leader of Germany say, 'Oh we can't rely on America anymore.'

The key thing in Northeast Asia is North Korea. They are unpredictable; they are developing their nuclear capabilities and their missiles.

We don't believe that Russia is a direct threat to Norway, but we believe that Russia has become more unpredictable in its policies.

Donald Trump himself actually said during his campaign that he essentially thinks being unpredictable is a good thing. Maybe that's a good thing in domestic politics, but in foreign policy, that is really stupid.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

Despite an unqualified understanding that U.S. national security was inextricably bound up with Britain's survival, F.D.R. knew that his reelection in part rested on the hope that he would keep the country out of war.

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.

That's what I do not believe - that dividing Iran into 'reasonable' and 'unreasonable' forces is either correct, conducive, or anybody's business. When the United States exercised that practice in the past, it didn't produce results.

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against all odds.

My wish is to be a catalyst, to push for solutions, to broker peace talks, to ensure accountability, especially for those who committed and are still organizing unspeakable crimes.

Our enemies and allies alike must know that aggressors will pay an unspeakable price for challenging the United States. The best way to impose that price is global military dominance.

There's an unspoken rule post-Cold War American Presidents have used when describing the awesome power of our nuclear arsenal; the more devastating the ability to destroy the enemy, the more restrained the language should be.

If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.

Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.

We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.