Quotes About Diplomacy

You know me, Robert, when my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier.

When my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier

DB: Well, in a way, this is also the difference of the politician and the statesman, isn't it? A statesman is somebody with a vision. EWS: Somebody like Nehru or Mandela who has the vision and, at the same time, the capacity to carry it out, whatever that might involve … DB:

It doesn't pay to get into a serious battle over every acorn, but it also doesn't pay to back down over every acorn. It's important to be predictable to a certain extent, but it's also important not to be too predictable.

Almost a year later, in the summer of 2019, the Russians and Chinese began joint air patrols in the Pacific.

the Houthis captured Sanaa, Yemen's capital. They wasted no time in establishing direct air service between Sanaa and Tehran.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

Would we, if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relation with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Peace is war by other means.

When those who must do the fighting have the right to decide between war and peace, history will no longer be written in blood.

Instead of sacking cities and wrecking temples he showed a courteous respect for the deities of the conquered, and contributed to maintain their shrines; even the Babylonians, who had resisted him so long, warmed towards him when they found him preserving their sanctuaries and honoring

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Pentagon ought to win the Nobel Peace Prize every year, because the U.S. military is the world's foremost guarantor of peace