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Quotes About Diplomacy

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.
~ Nikki Haley
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
~ William Ewart Gladstone
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
~ Nikola Tesla
There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.
~ Ricardo Lagos
Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.
~ Richard Cobden
I don't know of any government leaders that are killers.
~ Bill O'Reilly
We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.
~ Lech Walesa
I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.
~ Harry S. Truman
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
~ Cornelius Nepos
The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.
~ Eqbal Ahmad
For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
~ Rafik Hariri
Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.
~ J. Christopher Stevens
Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.
~ Lindsey Graham
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
~ Satish Kumar
The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.
~ Jalal Talabani
Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.
~ John Ralston Saul
International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
~ Samantha Power
The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.
~ Dick Spring
The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
~ Shirin Ebadi
A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.
~ Kofi Annan