Quotes About Best Diplomacy

#1. The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other

George W. Bush

#2. Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.

John Roos

#3. In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

Thomas R. Pickering

#4. A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

Henry Kissinger

#5. Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

Charlie Huston

#6. 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.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#7. Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

Karl Kraus

#8. His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.

Bill Clinton

#9. Surely the relationship between inconveniences suffered and privileges granted was part of the very essentials of learning how to handle people without an explosion.

Isaac Asimov

#10. There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.

Will Rogers

#11. We're instant ambassadors. Just add robot body and voila! If they'd told us anything real, they might have had to kill us.

Brenda Cooper

#12. Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

Dennis Ross

#13. 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.

Henry L. Stimson

#14. Now is not the time to look at the past. Lets look forward to the future.
Diplomats know very well that these are standard slogans for those who are engaged in serious crimes.

Noam Chomsky

#15. The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

Ahmed Zewail

#16. We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

Walt Whitman Rostow

#17. Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Will Rogers

#18. The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain,' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may cross

Jocelyn Murray

#19. 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

#20. The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed.

Condoleezza Rice

#21. A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.

Robin Hobb

#22. Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion.

Sukhwinder Singh

#23. 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

#24. We heads of state really prefer to have some sort of an agenda before we sit down at the high-stakes table, you know. All bad novelists notwithstanding, surprise and improvisation are not the best basis for successful diplomacy!

David Weber

#25. The art of diplomacy is often to tell someone you want to be their best friend, but failing that, you might have to destroy them. It's kind of like Christianity. Congressman Lance Boyd.

Jayden Hunter

#26. It's a time-honored truism of diplomacy that the most resented epithet is the one most accurately depicting the deficiencies of the recipient.

Keith Laumer

#27. 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

#28. Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Madeleine Albright

#29. The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

Robin Hobb

#30. War is the art of killing each other brutally, diplomacy is the art of killing each other softly.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#31. The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.

Elliott Abrams

#32. Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Winston Churchill

#33. Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Theodore Roosevelt

#34. Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Kofi Abrefa Busia

#35. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

George W. Bush

#36. The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

Clement Attlee

#37. Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

Joseph Conrad

#38. Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or withhold?

Robin Hobb

#39. All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Tony Benn

#40. The CIA has been at the root of every dirty little war America has fought in this century. The CIA and dollar diplomacy.

Stephen King

#41. I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.

Steven Johnson

#42. Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.

Jasper Fforde

#43. The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method.

James Aldridge

#44. 10 Keys To Success:
Focus
Perseverance
Ability to adapt
Diplomacy
Flexibility
Open to change
Make no excuses
Complain little
Personal responsibility
Faith

Charles F. Glassman

#45. As a member of Congress, I'm often reminded that in baseball, as in diplomacy, you have to know when to hit, when to run, and when to show grace.

Linda Sanchez

#46. A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.

Hassan Rouhani

#47. That's how it goes. Meetings in rooms. A little diplomacy, a little give and take, a promise here, an understanding there. That's how real revolutions happen.

Terry Pratchett

#48. Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.

Esther Williams