Quotes About Diplomacy

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.

It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say 'we,' I mean the country in general, but in particular, the Republican Party.

From a very strategic level, I believe the military is part of the solution to better outcomes around the world, but at a higher level, it's really about economies.

Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.

In practice, the U.K.'s most consistent strategic objective in relation to Iraq was to reduce the level of its deployed forces.

I'm calling on the United States: what kind of strategic partners are we, that you can still host someone whose extradition I have asked for?

A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest.

There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

for Britain and the U.S. They expected them to give weapons to the Ukrainian army so it can better fight the Russians, because until now all they had given the country, said Nadya, was the equivalent of feeding "a fly to a dog"—in other words, nothing

In the period from 1939 to 1941, the Soviet Union was allied to Nazi Germany and supplied it with the raw materials it used to make war on the Western allies. After Hitler attacked the Soviet Union everything changed of course, but officially the Soviet account could only say that the war had begun in 1941.

De Valera was back to his old tactic of taking an extreme course while sounding moderate.

The resort to force is a two-edged weapon which has a persistent habit of recoiling on the user and which in the last analysis seldom achieves anything that could not be obtained by reason and peaceful means.

he moved that the press and public be excluded so that misunderstandings could be cleared up. Collins refused to let him get away with the ploy and read out the credentials which the plenipotentiaries had received, saying that the secret instructions should not have been read out without them.

In their judgement it is essential, now that the war is over, and the peace Conference has dealt with so many analogous questions in Europe, that the Government should make a sincere attempt to deal with the Irish question once and for all.

I assent to this proposed Bill as effecting an ingenious strengthening of our tactical position before the world. I am absolutely satisfied that the Sinn Feiners will refuse it.

At the Parliamentary level Collins privately explored every avenue open to him to bring down the Northern Administration.

We can be for peace without supporting the enemy. We can be against this war without rooting for the other side.

Never criticize people who are not present to defend or explain themselves. And never predict that another person will experience failure.

Sometimes my tact takes a vacation. Tonight it must've gone to Kuwait or somewhere.

There weren't any moderates left in the government of Iran.

On July 29, 2008, paramilitary forces in South Ossetia began shelling Georgian villages. On the night of August 7, the government panicked. The Georgian military launched artillery into the enclave's provincial capital. And then the Russians struck after midnight. Putin's tanks and troops rolled south, the first Russian military invasion of a sovereign nation in nearly thirty years,