Quotes About Diplomacy

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.

You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

Politics is not about justice, but about solutions.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.