Quotes About Diplomacy

Think of what we could accomplish if we were not focused on murdering each other.

Itulah sebabnya mengapa persoalan-persoalan Asia harus diselesaikan dengan cara Asia.

Kehormatan dapat diperoleh baik di luar maupun di dalam dinding tembok PBB,

Cara paling mudah untuk mendekati rakyat adalah mendekati Sukarno - Sakaguchi

Biarkan mereka melaporkan, Sukarno tidak hanya bicara dengan mulut, tapi juga bicara dengan meriam dan sudah siap perang.

Aku tidak meminta Amerika memberi kami uang. Mereka pasti ingat, kami tekah mengemis sepanjang hidup kami. Kami tidak akan melakukannya lagi. Tapi ada bantuan yang tidak berwujud uang, apa yang sebenarnya kuinginkan dari Amerika ialah persahabatan.

Film seharusnya menjadi alat untuk meningkatkan solidaritas antar bangsa di dunia, bukan untuk menghancurkannya. Inilah cara yang murah untuk menunjukkan keramahan kepada kami. Tanpa dollar. Sekadar membuat film yang menunjukkan Amerika menyukai kami. Ternyata di dunia khayalpun Amerika membuat kami terpecah-pecah.

Diagnosticians act in many ways like politicians who may overtly take their differences very seriously but are always willing to shake hands in a smoke-filled room

A person has an idea about foreign policy or doesn't know one's arse from one's elbow.

Well," said Winslowe, moving over to plant himself behind the wheel, "it don't matter much what any of us are, just so we get along with one another. If some of the nations would only take a lesson from some small neighborhood like ours—a lesson in how to get along—the world would be a whole lot better.

The right word at the right time stops wars, cures heartaches, mends bridges, sweeps away barriers. The wrong word is the dropped match that lights a forest fire. 

The combination of close personal relationships, coupled with threats of punishment, is the standard Chinese modus operandi. Beijing hoped to turn Australia into a 'second France', 'a western country that would dare to say "no" to America'.

a common political mistake in the West, the belief that it's always an advantage for ambassadors to have long experience in China. Governments forget that, in the process of getting to know China and some of its powerful players, many succumb to Beijing's subtle influence techniques, so that an ambassador may in practice serve as a conduit for Beijing's messaging back to the Western capital.

Aron's conclusion was an epigram: "Peace impossible, war unlikely.

This was a strong point if you thought that Annan's disapproval of poverty and racism was ever likely to diminish either of those things.

confab in his visit to the President yesterday after

May our Country be always prepared for War, but disposed to Peace

Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said?

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Misguided missile." A happy simile; he must remember it. Perhaps a word to the War Office: the next time a cold war hotted up it might be an idea to launch her into the trouble spot, which should give the troublemakers enough troubles of their own to prevent them from troubling other people.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.

He never lives in a single reality, but in a shifting shadow-mesh of diplomatic possibilities.

Sometimes,' he says, 'I think it would save time and work if all the interested parties came to the council, including foreign ambassadors. The proceedings leak out anyway, and to save them mishearing and misconstruing they might as well hear everything at first hand.

We shall have to develop a hand signal for "Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter." He is surprised the Italians have not done it.