Quotes About Diplomacy

We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.

compromise is the work of mature people.

Mexico is a country we Americans should be cultivating a positive dialogue about how we work together to make ourselves more secure and more competitive vis-a-vis the rest of the world.

Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.

It's Israelis who are ready to abandon the hard work of peace.

We always welcome when somebody says he or she is ready to work with Russia.

We will keep a close eye on what is happening and wait for the election results and after that we will be ready to work with any Administration given that it wants to work with us.

The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.

I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe.

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

I have studied many politicians closely.

I was an international studies major.

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

I graduated with a foreign affairs/Middle East studies degree with a minor in Arabic from UVA in 2002.

I was studying to get into the Foreign Services. I did my Masters from P.U.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.