Quotes About Diplomacy

In private, he justified his stiffer attitude to Britain by the secret documents now found in Prague archives. 'One day we'll publish them to all the world, to prove Britain's dishonesty,' Bodenschatz told a French diplomat. 'All we're asking for is our right to live, and we're not going to let a country that owns three-fifths of the earth deny us this elementary right.

Jack Kennedy protected a mature and presidential image – tough, yet not unduly combative.

You can't just march into someone else's country and start telling everyone what to do—even the Marines have to practice a little diplomacy. May

In America, the talk now is all about white privilege, but regardless of your race, there's American privilege as well, or at least Western privilege. It means that when you're in Dakar or Minsk your embassy is open and staffed, and you don't need to hand out bribes in order to get

Battles aren't always—or even usually—won by killing everybody on the other side. They're won inside the other side's brains and wills. Given the right weapons, the right tactical situation, anyone can kill an enemy. Convincing her to yield, to do what you set out to compel her to do without killing her—that's harder.

We heads of state really prefer to have some sort of an agenda before we sit down at the high-stakes table, you know. All bad novelists notwithstanding, surprise and improvisation are not the best basis for successful diplomacy!

What's conquered by the sword is owned only so long as the sword stays sharp. What's brought together in amity, in recognition of common needs and purpose—of common enemies—has the strength to stand even after swords are no longer required.

It's amazing what deadly weapons compassion and morality are when they're deployed in the service of diplomacy.

Hey. You know second contact is pretty important too.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest.

Indeed, from my earliest years the idea of transformation has been central to my life. Naturally so, I suppose, being the child of diplomats. I changed schools, languages, countries and continents a number of times during my childhood. At each change I had the opportunity to re-create myself, to present a new façade, to bury past errors and misrepresentations.

thinking to be tactful and adroit, the woman stood

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.

I have great admiration for Atal Bihari Vajapyee.

We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.

I would never advocate violence on Trump or anyone.

The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.

At the end of any peace deal, the decision-maker will be the government of Afghanistan.

India will continue to support Afghanistan in all possible ways.

The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.