Quotes About Diplomacy

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

No nation has friends only interests.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Being non-confrontational is novel way of living. Trying to always maintain harmony is a great quality to have and to make you person of non controversy.

Agreeing to everything someone is saying so that they stop talking.

It is my greatest desire, I want the people in Russia to be happy and I want our partners around the world to seek to develop relations with Russia.

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me in my policy, what guides my government as a whole.

Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States.

The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.

We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.