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Quotes About Diplomacy

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.
~ Patricia Schroeder
Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.
~ Philip Sidney
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
~ Robert M. Gates
The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.
~ Robert M. Gates
It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.
~ Tony Blair
We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.
~ William J. Clinton
If you make peace without defense power, then you should be really ready to be ruled.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
~ Edward Snowden
Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.
~ Norman Lamont
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then
~ Tom Lehrer
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
~ Jimmy Carter
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.
~ Donald Trump
I have a great relationship with the Mexican people...They love me, I love them.
~ Donald Trump
The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.
~ Jiang Zemin
We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.
~ Colin Powell
Thank[Barack Obama] for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship.
~ Angela Merkel
The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.
~ Henry C. Link
Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
~ John Howard
I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.
~ Bernard-Henri Levy