Quotes About Diplomacy

There is no idea bigger, more critical or more urgent than ending our endless wars.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Woe to the statesman who does not seek in these times a case for war that still holds up after the war is over.

Politics is an inexact science.

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Politics is not an exact science.

A conquering army on the border will not be halted by the power of eloquence.

Politics is the art of the next best.

The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions—that was the error of 1848 and 1849—but by iron and blood.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, "Die Politik ist die Lehre von Möglichen.")

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

Politics is no exact science.

How are you? My father could say this quicker than anybody. He was always the first to say how are you, provided the occasion called for it, and he saw his chance. Thanks to this skill, he was made ambassador to England ...

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

We'll do anything to get rid of that excess hardware from the Cold War, and someday it's going to come back to haunt us.

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.

If war is the continuation of politics by other means, terrorism is the continuation of war by other means.

Small nations, when treated as equals, become the firmest of allies." It