Quotes About Diplomacy

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

We need to strike better trade deals, but we need to do it in a way that ensures that we are at the table on these deals.

Missile strikes - or any other such action - against a sovereign nation is an act of war.

What I really - and I would like to clarify my position, to topple Hamas. And I think it's possible to bring reasonable people, moderate people to take power in Gaza Strip.

If the Gaza ceasefire proves stable, Israel will not remain in the Strip.

There's no shame in striving for peace.

The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

We have a very strong politician of global stature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. There is no one like him on the world stage.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

I want the voice of developing countries to be stronger.

I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.

There is an alliance between Israel and the United States, and it has never been stronger than at the time of George W. Bush.

A lot of Americans think we need to stand stronger. I don't disagree with that. But that doesn't mean you go picking fights with countries all around the world. That's not the way to be a stronger, more secure America.

Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.

We won't always have the strongest military.

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

A war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is the beginning of a major catastrophe in the region, and it will reflect very strongly on the rest of the world. For sure, we will not allow any such thing.