Quotes About Diplomacy

I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should.

I strongly feel that there has to be a dialogue process internally as well as externally, with Pakistan.

I strongly believe that we would be amiss to cut ourselves off from Saudi Arabia without expending every effort to avert disaster.

While most become star struck by A-list actors, you'll only see me in awe of leaders effecting change. Politician and diplomat Madeleine Albright, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. These are my heroes. These are my celebrities.

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

I do believe - I very strongly believe that the Arab nations would be willing to put together an Arab NATO-like structure.

If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Even after defeating India, I still have the highest respect for them as opponents.

I try to build up people, not break them down, and in politics, it seems now the game is breaking down your opponents.

We should be working with our European allies, not turning them into opponents.

Hillary Clinton became secretary of state under Barack Obama. It's hard to convey just how stunningly cynical she has been on Colombia: In 2008, running against Obama, she opposed, in unambiguous terms, a free-trade deal with Colombia.

I'm not opposed to talking with anyone who is willing to talk.

The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

American diplomats meet with formal government officials, we meet with opposition protesters, not just in Hong Kong or China. This literally happens in every single country in which an American embassy is present.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

Our adversaries must see diplomacy as their best option because war with the United States will force them to bear enormous costs.

For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.

By God, war is not an option for two nuclear countries.