Quotes About Diplomacy

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come and see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

Way to defuse a situation. It's tough to enjoy a good bloodbath in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

The Great Illusion.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

One story that circulated about (U.S. Minister to Russia Charles S.) Todd concerned his conversation with a lady-in-waiting at an Imperial reception in the Winter Palace. In his bad French with a Kentucky accent, he mispronounced the word for year, so that an explanation of his travels came out: "I was an ass in Paris, part of an ass in London, almost an ass in Germany, and I am two asses here." To which the lady reportedly responded, "And you will be an ass wherever you go.

if the Americans do not launch a conventional attack Israel would be compelled and justified in launching a nuclear strike to prevent a "second Holocaust.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Jarret condemns the burnings, but does so in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear.

Secretaries of Astronautics don't have to know much about science. They have to know about politics.

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want peace, prepare for war. Curiously, it seemed most

Diplomacy: lying in state.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

In 1916, President Wilson drafted the speech in which he declared, "It shall not lie with the American people to dictate to another what their government shall be." His Secretary of State Robert Lansing wrote in the margin: "Haiti, S Domingo, Nicaragua, Panama."6 That

O American people, I am speaking to tell you about the ideal way to avoid another Manhattan, about war and its causes and results.

We reserve the right to retaliate... against all countries that take part in this unjust war, namely Britain, Spain, Australia, Poland, Japan and Italy.