Quotes About Diplomacy

He guessed that in Washington two conversations often went on simultaneously: the one you meant and the one you said out loud.

politicians should think a lot more carefully before they commit the next generation to war.

Geneva and I shall declare your Ambassador in Lagos persona non grata.

The television show from inside the spacecraft would be even worse, with the happy, cocky Americans showing off for their countrymen back home—and showing up the people of Russia.

If I had a family crest, it would read Please Don't Make Me Be an Asshole.

Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made a face. I rather kiss a copperhead. I grabbed the envelop from his hand. He laughed and held up his hands in surrender. Don't worry. It was only a figure of speech.

any poet who writes for the world beyond his own threshold should have something in his nature of the statesman.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

international hand of freindship. A cigarette

He had dreamed of being an interpreter for diplomats and dignitaries, resolving conflicts between people and nations, settling disputes of which he alone could understand both sides.

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.

We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

The United States and India can work together.

Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people.

We will continue to work together to implement the Minsk accord and doing all we can to return to peace with the respect of the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.

America can be a partner with China. We don't have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form. We can work with them, we can collaborate with them, if they're willing to be responsible.

There's certain things that we do work with Russia on and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.

Going on and getting good bilateral agreement is a better way [than Trans-Pacific Partnership agreements], and I'm fine with that strategy. I think that strategy can work as well.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.