Quotes About Diplomacy

Iran must stop all proliferation-sensitive activities, including uranium enrichment, and we will not accept actions that support the continuation of such enrichment.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

Mexico and the USA are friends, partners and allies and should continue to work together for competivity and development across North America.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

We should stand by our allies, but we should also stand by our ideals and work with our allies and encourage them to live up to the democratic institutions and traditions that they enjoy.

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.

As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order.

The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward ensuring international security, and not only in the Far East.

India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.