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Quotes About Diplomacy

The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'
~ Jesse Ventura
The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.
~ Neil Young
There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.
~ Narendra Modi
Pursuit of peace in the world is the only foundation of peace in the world.
~ Auliq-Ice
God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We must learn from history, there is no military solution for the Kashmir issue...we have to understand this reality.
~ Pervez Musharraf
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
~ Joichi Ito
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
~ Stanley Kubrick
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
~ John Barth
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
~ Winston Churchill
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
~ F. L. Lucas
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
~ Kenneth Waltz
A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.
~ Ronald Reagan
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
~ Ronald Reagan
The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.
~ Vladimir Putin
Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
~ Ambrose Bierce
History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
~ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
A Peace to End All Peace.
~ David Fromkin
We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.
~ Saeb Erekat
It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart