Quotes About Diplomacy

So having a little more of an awareness of what's going on in the rest of the world I think is what many Canadians would hope for Americans.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation.

I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

Finally, in 1954 [Ho Chi Minh] agreed to the Geneva Agreement, which divided the country temporarily into two zones, in the hope that national elections might unify the country under his leadership.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.

Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.

We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.

My only hope was to be polite.

António Guterres role as Secretary-General in bringing all powers together is very essential' and we hope he can succeed, it's not easy of course.

And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.

I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?