Quotes About Diplomacy

You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...

after his second and more satisfying career in the service of the American state, the furniture of Ellsworth Bunker's mind had settled into place. It was impossible for him not to see Vietnam in the perspective of the Caribbean and Central America.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

if preparation prevents war, there would have been no war in Europe. They spent twenty years preparing for it."29

Without democracy there cannot be peace.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.

Non-violence is a good policy when conditions permit.

One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.

To make peace with an enemy, one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes your partner.

Para firmar la paz con un enemigo es necesario trabajar con él.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

I believe it is peace in our time.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war.

This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace in our time.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.