Quotes About Diplomacy

o equilíbrio de poder precisa de ser reavaliado de tempos a tempos. É ele que desencadeia as guerras cuja dimensão limita.

Relations between China and the United States need not - and should not - become a zero-sum game ... Key issues on the international front are global in nature. Consensus may prove difficult, but confronation on these issues is self-defeating.

Pokud Ã…â"¢ádu nelze dosáhnout obecnou shodou ani jej vnutit silou, pak nelze jinak než jej za cenu katastrof a nelidskostí ukout ze zkuÅ¡enosti chaosu.

Foreign policy is in danger of turning into a subdivision of domestic politics instead of an exercise in shaping the future.

Observe carefully; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.40

Ã…Ëœe?eno slovy Rooseveltova oblíbeného poÃ…â"¢ekadla, Amerika bude "mluvit tiÅ¡e a držet silnou h?l".

No leader among Russia's immediate neighbors shares America's faith in Russian conversion as the key to his country's security.

At the end of my November 1973 visit, I suggested to Zhou a hotline between Washington and Beijing as part of an agreement on reducing the risks of accidental war.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.

Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right.

questions which weren't solved by diplomats, would be less solved with powder and blood.

No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.

After reading Tolstoy's lengthy essay "On Life" in 1889, Ernest Crosby, a thirty-three-year-old American diplomat who was working in Egypt at the time, decided that diplomacy wasn't his calling and instead dedicated the next twenty-seven years of his life to writing and lecturing about Tolstoy throughout the United States.

This famous Prussian neutrality is nothing but a trap.

The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.

Sorry as she was for the couple, the consummate actress trained at the Vatican school of drama and diplomacy may have felt more than a scintilla of satisfaction at her brother's success.

An international celebrity, he said, was better off "leaving politics to the chaps who are paid to do the job, dear.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.