Quotes About Diplomacy

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

Being nice to someone you'd rather slap isn't being fake, it's called sucking it up and acting like an adult!

No offense means I'm about to hurt your feelings, but let's pretend I didn't.

Being nice to someone you have an issue with doesn't mean you are fake...it means someone taught you how to be polite.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.

I know a lot more than you think, but I keep it to myself to save arguments.

Odysseus shrugged. "There are many ways to start a war. I always think raiding makes a good beginning. It accomplishes almost the same thing as diplomacy, but with greater profit.

The answer that came to me was from a different tale. Long ago, in my wide bed, I had asked Odysseus: "What did you do? When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?" He'd smiled in the firelight. "That is easy. You make a plan in which they do not.

I had asked Odysseus: 'What did you do? When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?' He'd smiled in the firelight. 'That is easy. You make a plan in which they do not.

Because, dear King of Argos, if war comes after some diplomacy or delay, we do not seem so much the villains.

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

Shit! Those sons a bitches Russians!

Ahora que esta amenaza [la agresión soviética] ha sido eliminada, han surgido otros problemas... Existe un enorme incentivo para trabajar cooperativamente. Pero las fuerzas del nacionalismo, el proteccionismo y los conflictos religiosos avanzan en dirección contraria. El nuevo orden mundial debe desarrollar un mundo cooperativo y encontrar nuevos medios para reprimir dichas fuerzas divisorias

El día en que esta Santa Sede se sujete a la nueva Europa de diplomáticos y políticos, a la Europa centrada en Bruselas y París, aquel día comenzarán realmente los infortunios de la Iglesia

I remember once being asked by an American, "Does everyone in your country still sleep in trees?" And I replied, "Yes." He was overjoyed (or at least seemed so) at meeting someone who had slept in a tree. But when I added that in our capital city of Ouagadougou the ambassador of the United States sleeps in the tallest tree, he walked away confused and a bit suspicious. Americans are bred to expect the rest of the world to be underdeveloped. The

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.