Quotes About Diplomacy

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.

My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

Violence is my last option.

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

Violence does not contribute to anything.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.

After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq.

Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.