Quotes About Diplomacy

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Let us conduct ourselves in such a fashion that all nations wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

All disarmament plans had been buried.

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

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I'll always be on the move for peace in the Korean peninsula. If necessary, I will fly straight to Washington. I will go to Beijing and Tokyo and, if the conditions allow, to Pyongyang as well.

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington.

With little fanfare, Jared Kushner is quietly tackling Washington's slow, outdated modus operandi while simultaneously engaging in high-level diplomacy that promotes America's interests on the world stage.

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

While it's true that Washington would benefit from more civility, the Senate, behind the scenes, is an extraordinarily collegial institution.

Nothing has come from this whole 'peace industry' except for conferences in five-star hotels and a waste of money.

The 1990s was not just Japan's 'wasted decade,' it was also a wasted decade for the India-Japan relationship.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

When Hillary served as Secretary of State, I watched her partner with President Obama to restore our country's reputation around the world.

You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.

If I was in office, I'd get together all the chiefs and all the heads and chiefs of staffs of all the countries and explain to them like, 'This is how it's going to be. We need y'all oil and water. Y'all need our money and technology. Now, what y'all gon' do?'

Keeping his face clean over Watergate was one of Kissinger's biggest successes; so was his overall handling of the Yom Kippur War.

The people of India and Arabia have interacted across the waters between them for thousands of years.