Quotes About Diplomacy

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.

It is always our objective to have close ties with the United States. We're at a transitional period of our history and we're on a road to reform.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?

How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

Hillary Clinton is going to make sure that Americans are safe at home and abroad.

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.

Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.

The mantle of leadership for promoting the principles of peace has fallen to America. We didn't ask for it. But it's an honor that we have it.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.