International Diplomacy Quotes

#1. The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.

Douglas Brinkley

#2. For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

Najib Razak

#3. Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.

Bob Menendez

#4. If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.

Susan Vreeland

#5. Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.

Alain Juppe

#6. How can you cry for others' struggles when you are facilitating mayhem in your own land?

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#7. Diplomacy, if conducted sensibly, is a matter of small gains offset by small losses, an attempt to maintain a state of equilibrium in which catastrophes are either mitigated or, with luck, avoided entirely.

William S. Maltby

#8. Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

John Piper

#9. We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

Mahmoud Abbas

#10. Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.

Richard Phillips

#11. The most fundamental problem is not that we don't have a system to run but those with knowledge are cynically manipulating the system for petty personal desires.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#12. The mentality of being the super power globally or regionally has contributed strongly to the development of very negative aspects to the political cohabitation the countries of the region than proving the capability of producing solutions that would meet the needs of the public.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#13. We got an international coalition [against Iran], and we imposed that. It was slow, patient diplomacy, nothing at all particularly headline-worthy. But then you got to the point where the negotiations - which I started and Secretary [John] Kerry completed - I think made the world safer.

Hillary Clinton

#14. The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Arthur Miller

#15. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Hans Eysenck

#16. Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#17. The "compleat diplomat" of the future should remain cognizant of realism's emphasis on the inescapable role of power, keep liberalism's awareness of domestic forces in mind, and occasionally reflect on constructivism's vision of change.

Stephen M. Walt

#18. That's the key to walking through the Wall.... You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall.

Kevin J. Shay

#19. Powers rise and fall. Leaders come and go. History makes a mockery of our best-laid plans, in the end, you aare left with thosecthings you have shared with one another

Kirsten Beyer

#20. President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

David Letterman

#21. English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

Edward Sapir

#22. Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something about, you really have difficulty unless the international community really mobilizes.

Condoleezza Rice

#23. I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. "Save the drama for your mama " I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

Charlaine Harris

#24. When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Adolf Hitler

#25. Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

Bill Veeck

#26. Conscious cooperation was more efficient than feral competition?

Iain M. Banks