Diplomatically Quotes

#1. No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.

Kevin Rudd

#2. I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today.

George W. Bush

#3. The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Tony Blair

#4. If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

George Friedman

#5. the city," he said diplomatically.

Victoria Thompson

#6. I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance, he has had many chances over the last 12 years and he has blown every one of those chances.

Colin Powell

#7. Instruct decently.
Instruct discerningly.
Instruct disarmingly.
Instruct diplomatically.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. I'm very concerned about the nuclear weapons development for Iran and the destabilizing influence it has and they have in that part of the world. And I strongly endorse continued pressure, diplomatically, financially, economically.

Michael Mullen

#9. Of course, if there should be war, it wouldn't last long - not in the twentieth century; and no one wants it. There would be, perhaps, a few skirmishes on the frontiers, and then everything would be arranged diplomatically.

Marie Van Vorst

#10. World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

Richard Holbrooke

#11. There are different types of salvation." he said, diplomatically. "No." Rena shook him off. "There's only one. In the voice of God, speaking through the space between the stars.

Anne Corlett

#12. Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.

Joseph Heller

#13. I believe that we're going to find out that America made a lot of mistakes diplomatically, economically, militarily, intel-wise. But, I also think we're going to find out the U.S. has done a lot of good things too.

John McCain

#14. Overwhelmingly, Israel's political and military establishment want the rest of the world to act diplomatically or otherwise to stop Iran. But if that doesn't happen, then the impulse toward the use of force will become quite strong.

Dennis Ross

#15. Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

Jonathan Haidt

#16. I guess people do have different ways of dealing with stuff,' she said diplomatically, 'but you can't run away for ever.

Melissa Hill

#17. Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto Von Bismarck

#18. Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.

Jim Butcher

#19. The (Iraq) war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization,

Harry Reid

#20. Yes, she's playing silent music for invisible beings. Perhaps they need it.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Go Chase A Donut. -Percy Jackson.

Rick Riordan

#22. Take it all off. I don't intend to fuck somebody in his underwear. And you have to use a condom. I know where I've been, but I don't know where you've been. - Lisbeth Salander

Stieg Larsson

#23. Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#24. America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#25. ... to walk is to enact the illusion of autonomy and above all the myth of authenticity.

Sergio Chejfec

#26. Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Henry Petroski