Quotes About Diplomacy

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

It must be a peace without victory…. Only a peace between equals can last.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

Only peace between equals can last.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

This was precisely what Kennedy expected and feared Churchill was going to say. The newly installed prime minister intended to push the British to fight on until the Americans had no choice but to enter the war or watch from the sidelines as Great Britain was conquered.

Hitler had shouted at Wilson in their face-to-face meeting that as far as he was concerned, the British cabinet and the Czechoslovak government had only two choices: to accept his terms or to reject them. If they chose the latter, Hitler thundered, then repeated several times, "I will smash the Czechs." He gave the governments until two P.M. the following day to accept his terms.50

Queen Victoria complained that Gladstone talked to her as if he were addressing a public meeting. She preferred Disraeli, who talked to her like a human being. When you write copy, follow Disraeli's example.

Do not make the common mistake of regarding your clients as dopes. Make friends with them. Buy shares in their companies. But try not to become entangled in their politics. Emulate Talleyrand, who served France through seven regimes.

At the same time President Kennedy invited me - and all the other millions of Europe - to try the novelty of tourism in the U.S., he issued a secret directive to 180,000,000 Americans to be nice to us. How else to explain the embarrassing generosity, the overwhelming kindness, the extreme courtesy at every turn?

Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred".

He said that it was Ronald Reagan's strategy of negotiation through strength that brought the Kremlin to its knees.

don't antagonize the enemy, obligate him.

Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only to speak plainly, even though you may look foolish. This is a thousand times better than looking good and talking nonsense.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.

In my experience it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear then do as you please, than attempt to reason with him.

because, in my experience, it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.