Quotes About Diplomacy

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Or to put it the way President Theodore Roosevelt did: "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." —

The best way to lose an enemy is to treat him like a friend.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at

The meeting went smoothly and there was a strong (push) to achieve peace from both sides...Both parties agreed to mutual forgiveness.

I have visited many countries and I see it as very normal that when people clash (bump in to each other), it is normal that these people apologize, ... Now, we see that these planes come in to our country and they don't want to ask for forgiveness. Is that normal?

I had talks with my American colleague, (Treasury Secretary) John Snow, which created the basis on which the forgiveness of Iraqi debt can be settled mutually in the Paris Club.

If your birthday party fell on the same night as another birthday party, I'd get the other one out of the way first.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.