Diplomacy Quotes
Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.
Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.
Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.
Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.
I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!
He will spit you and roast you with rosemary, and we will all sample your flesh tonight. Tomorrow you will be shat out into the snow. Your diplomacy is bold and edgy, sir.
The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.
If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.
I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.
Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.
I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy.
The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.
I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.
Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I’ve fought; talking is far better than fighting.
Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.
Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.
Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely.
