Quotes About Diplomacy

Only when everything else failed did a good sheriff make an arrest. The best sheriff was not the best fighter but the best diplomat.

Politeness and courtesy are a small price to pay for the goodwill of others.

there would be times when we disagreed but there would never be times when we had to be disagreeable.

My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clinton's plane.

My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

We all seek peace. Yet in the name of peace, some are prepared to wage wars!

If you wish to live in harmony, you must respect every person and, in non-essential matters, yield!

Tact: getting your point across without stabbing someone with it.

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

It is beyond question that in the remote future a Franco-German rapprochement might come into being and would be highly profitable to both countries, nor would France have the worse of the bargain, I dare say, but I have never spoken of it because the fruit is not yet ripe, and if you wish to know my opinion,

It is beyond question that in the remote future a Franco-German rapprochement might come into being and would be highly profitable to both countries, nor would France have the worse of the bargain, I dare say, but I have never spoken of it because the fruit is not yet ripe, and if you wish to know my opinion, in asking our late enemies to join with us in solemn wedlock, I consider that we should be setting out to meet a severe rebuff, and that the attempt could end only in disaster.

For, as far as these important diplomats are concerned, to look at you in a certain way is intended to convey to you not that they have seen you but that they have not, and that they have some serious matter

The truly skillful politician is one who, when he comes to a fork in the road, goes both ways.

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

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

The truth is, any government that thinks war is somehow fair and subject to rules like a baseball game probably should not get into one.

if you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

War is what happens when language fails.

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!