Quotes About Diplomacy

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

Politics is not an exact science.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law."

Politics is a game of friends.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences