Quotes About Diplomacy

The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

I served in the Navy in Europe and know firsthand the importance of our NATO partners.

I don't ever talk about red lines whether in coalition negotiations with other partners or in Europe. It is important that we listen to others and find a way forward.

Russia has demonstrated it is not committed to genuine partnership with the United States.

I don't think countries engage with each other looking at immediate gains. It's building a partnership.

For Obama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement - unilaterally abrogated by Trump - was part of the 'pivot to Asia,' a re-assertion of the role of America in that part of the world.

The U.S.-E.U. partnership is indispensable to ensuring a Europe whole, free, and at peace.

The economic partnership between India and Italy is strong.

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

According to some tallies, since 1776, the United States has been at war 93 percent of its existence, passing through a mere 21 years of peace.

We Americans have an obligation to come to China, to learn more about China. Why? Because with each passing day, it's going to be more and more in our future.

Endeavour to come to an agreement on such or such a question and then return not with a law in your pocket, but with a proposition of agreement which we may or may not accept.

The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the language, which lends itself to graceful expression even when dealing with fairly basic subjects.... And there's that famously elegant subtitle from a classic Western. COWBOY: "Gimme a shot of red-eye." SUBTITLE: "Un Dubonnet, s'il vous plait." No wonder French was the language of diplomacy for all those years.

It is a race now whether the Bolsheviks double-cross the Americans, or the Americans the English – because they are certainly not very united – or whether the English double-cross both the others

Munich was the final turning point for Hitler. He had met the leaders of the western democracies and made monkeys of them. He had proved that tactics of deception, threat and histrionics worked at the highest levels of European diplomacy. His will had broken the bonds of reality; everything was possible.

Worse than Munich with worse than Chamberlain!

In his first eight years on the global lecture circuit, Bill had never been paid to speak in Nigeria. But once Hillary was appointed secretary of state, he booked two of his top three highest-paid speeches ever by traveling to Nigeria, pulling in a whopping $700,000 each.69

From the White House to Capitol Hill, from the diplomatic corps to the national security establishment to the executive suites of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, American elites have sold the rope that will hang us to Beijing.

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

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

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.