Quotes About Diplomacy

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.

Don't be so petty. Sometimes you have to do business with people you don't like. It doesn't mean you have to be like them or like them.

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Donald Trump's America can be friend and ally, or at least an indifferent power that concentrates on itself and minds its own business.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.

Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.

The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

[People] are tired of being ripped off by every single country that does business with us. Whether it's China, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam.

Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states.

You make deals in business and in government if you're smart.

We can't defend Japan, a behemoth, selling us cars by the million.

If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

Statesmen may plot and plan. Learned men may calculate and conclude. Diplomats may debate and prevaricate. But chance rules the immediate affairs of humankind.

when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . .

Negotiations with religious fanatics who have delusions of grandeur generally do not go well.

A diplomat, according to Alex Dreier, is "anyone who thinks twice before saying nothing.

embarrassing entanglements. "Bribery interferes with trade, investment, and development," Hillary Clinton said at the OECD's fiftieth-anniversary forum in 2011. "It undermines good governance and encourages greater corruption. And of course, it is morally wrong—and far too common." On that we can all agree.

On the whole it's not wise to remind the devil that he's the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.

Despite everything," she wrote to Erwin on September 4 from Wiener Neustadt, "we were all hoping to the very end that a second world war could be avoided—we all hoped that reason would prevail in Britain and France. . . . Now the Führer has left last night for the Polish front.