Military Diplomacy Quotes

#1. The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

Richard Armitage

#2. Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.

Thomas C. Schelling

#3. Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism ... [because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

Price Pritchett

#4. There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

Martin McGuinness

#5. 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.

Stuart Symington

#6. It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#7. I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#8. The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget ... in the final analysis ... that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.

Ronald Reagan

#9. If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#10. You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background

George F. Kennan

#11. We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.

Barack Obama

#12. Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek military solutions. Terrorism is a political problem. Seek political solutions. Diplomacy works.

Eqbal Ahmed

#13. Actually she was at least in her late twenties (I never established her exact age for even her passport lied) and had mislaid her virginity under circumstances that changed with her reminiscent moods.

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy

John Hagee

#15. The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

Scott Turow

#16. War may represent the failure of diplomacy, but even the best diplomats operate on credit. Sooner or later someone who's less reasonable than you are is going to call you, and if your military can't cover your I.O.U.s, you lose.

David Weber

#17. Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn