Quotes About Diplomacy

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

We don't want open doors where we can beg; we want open doors because there is a serious dialogue.

The U.S. Embassy in Havana may be reopened, but outside its gates, an open society with more freedom for its people is still absent.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.

Labour is the party of internationalism and openness.

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.

Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother.

Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.

Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.

In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.

We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

Some slight friction threatening in the Balkans, sir.

Anyone who has had anything to do with the higher diplomacy is aware that diplomatic language stands in a class by itself. It is a language specially designed to deceive the chance listener.

The weapons are held to the head of all the world, and the world behaves. No one has an advantage; no one can win.

If we had a man like Paramahansa Yogananda in the United Nations today, probably the world would be a better place than it is. To my knowledge, no one has worked more, has given more of himself, to bind the peoples of India and America together.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.