Quotes About Diplomacy

Ambassador Albright reportedly threatened to resign over what she called "softly-softly" pact with Miloševi?.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.

The British were afraid. They knew they didn't have the money, the people, or the weaponry to sustain a long fight against the Nazis. They needed America to join the war. Their survival as a nation depended on it.

So this is where the CIA began— with J. Edgar Hoover telling the British to go to hell, and the British not appreciating it. This was also when the British began making friendly advances toward Elizebeth Friedman.

Despite being programmed for etiquette and protocol, C-3PO had a singularly awful sense of diplomacy.

Hacer política consiste en ceder en lo accesorio para no ceder en lo esencial.

There Is No Such Thing as a Diplomatic Hand Grenade

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral. We must not be parsimonious, as long as we are not shooting, we are not spending one tenth as much.

One day the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments will have to get out of their way and give it to them.

I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.

Moreover, Middle East oil was a great prize.

We have had the bomb on our minds since 1945. It was first our weaponry, and then diplomacy, and now it's our economy. How can we suppose that something so monstrously powerful could not, after 40 years, compose our identity?

It is the duty of those who claim to rule over others not to provoke them beyond the necessity of the case, nor to leave stings in their minds which must long rankle even when the appearance of tranquillity is restored.

there was no foreign war, because this prince was always ready for war.

THE FOLLOWING DAY, Wednesday, Hendricks telephoned acceptance, and on Friday afternoon Roosevelt joyfully released news of the nomination to the press. Privately, to his old Assembly colleague Henry L. Sprague, he wrote: "I have always been fond of the West African proverb: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' Ã¢â'¬Â28

We infinitely desire peace, and the surest way of obtaining it is to show that we are not afraid of war.

Diplomacy, Roosevelt insisted, is utterly useless when there is no force behind it; the diplomat is the servant, not the master of the soldier.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter

Persuasion should come before force. In any case it is the availability of raw power, not the use of it, that makes for effective diplomacy.