Quotes About Diplomacy

One way to be sure of saying nothing that can be taken amiss is to say nothing at all.

Two hours later there was a longer wire from Winston Churchill

Till the war drum throbbed no longer and the battle flags were furledIn the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

My factories may make an end of war sooner than your congresses. The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!

Consulting de Gaulle whether he should be present at the flag-lowering ceremony or not, Fouchet after a pause of several seconds had been told simply: "Je crois que ça serait inutile....

Back in another untroubled summer, that of 1870, the British foreign secretary Lord Granville, gazing up from Whitehall, could detect "not a cloud in the sky." Yet a month later, Europe would be torn asunder by the Franco-Prussian War, marking the end of a century of Pax Britannica and all its optimistic assumptions.

But politics was a bit like chess: you had to move with an eye on the whole board, with a 360-degree view of what would come next and the move after that.

I find there is a lack of international intrigue at the moment. - Rosie

Fazla seçeneÄŸi yoktu; bu yüzden her h?rs?z?n istediÄŸini alabilmek için kulland??? en eski ve güvenilir metodu kullanmaya karar verdi: Kibarca istemek. (syf. 20)

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

I will give you three days, if the gates are not opened on these revised terms, I shall attack. And then there shall be no terms of any kind."

Las personas son como países. Resulta maravilloso que haya tantos y que una perpetua deriva de los continentes propicie que se encuentren islas tan nuevas. Pero si esa tectónica de las placas lleva a un territorio desconocido hasta tu orilla, la hostilidad aparece de inmediato. Sólo quedan dos soluciones: la guerra o la diplomacia.

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

There is a perception across the Middle East that America is weakened. I believe the perception is wrong. The United States remains the world's mightiest military, economic and diplomatic power by far, with reach and abilities beyond rival.

The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.

But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.

We are in perilous territory the stronger Iran gets. And they're getting stronger. We should make them weaker.

If the U.S. and its allies can invade a weaker country on the excuse it is abetting terrorism, then why should not India, say, launch a pre-emptive strike against Pakistan on the self-same grounds?

I think we can be confident that U.S. policy toward Poland and thus also our relations will not deteriorate, that at least they will not become weaker.

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.