Quotes About Diplomacy

#1. 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

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

Madeleine Albright

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

Robin Hobb

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#5. 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

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

Winston Churchill

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Kofi Abrefa Busia

#9. 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

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

Clement Attlee

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

Joseph Conrad

#12. 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

#13. All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Tony Benn

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

James Aldridge

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Esther Williams

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Thomas R. Pickering

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Karl Kraus

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

Bill Clinton

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Dennis Ross

#35. 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

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

John Roos

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

Ahmed Zewail

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

Walt Whitman Rostow

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

Will Rogers

#40. Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Marquis De Sade

#41. There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

Hillary Clinton

#42. But diplomacy would be easy if we had to talk only to our friends. That's not how peace is made.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#43. An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Norman Davies

#44. 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.

Randolph Bourne

#45. The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

Ed Royce

#46. With my people, what you see is what you get. We prefer blunt talk to diplomacy. My family was much the same way. Phaelan's idea of diplomacy involved firing cannon shot across your bow rather than through your waterline.

Lisa Shearin

#47. There is no diplomacy like candor.

E. V. Lucas

#48. Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.

Laurent Lamothe

#49. It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#50. And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.

Tomas Young

#51. Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

Colin Powell

#52. Remember, there is no peace without peaceful exchange.

Kass Morgan

#53. The laboring-class boys of grey flannel are instinctive in their behavior because they are, in fact, in possession of nothing at all other than instinct; science and diplomacy are tools unused.

Morrissey

#54. A lot of diplomacy lies in appearing to be a lot more stupid than you are.

Terry Pratchett

#55. Diplomacy never works.

Nadia Scrieva

#56. Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Robin Hobb

#57. 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

#58. You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Robert MacNeil

#59. Diplomacy was a long game.

H.W. Brands

#60. Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.

Jonathan Turley

#61. The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.

Cynthia P. Schneider

#62. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

Mark Twain

#63. We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

Michael McCaul

#64. Remember, sometimes diplomacy is the better side of warfare."
"Dipolomacy is a lot easier to accomplish if you've got your foe on his knees hoping you don't lop off his head.

C.J. Redwine

#65. 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

#66. Propaganda - a war of words. Diplomacy - words of peace.

Ted Agon

#67. Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#68. Harmagians had money. Aeluons had firepower. Aandrisks had diplomacy. Humans had arguments.

Becky Chambers

#69. Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.

Robert A. Heinlein

#70. Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends ... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.

Richard Armitage

#71. Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia.

Alan Greenspan

#72. 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.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#73. In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

Barack Obama

#74. You know, in the realm of diplomacy, we are all bound to defend and promote our respective national interests. But, there is also such a thing as common interests: matters where our interests converge rather than diverge, compelling us to work together rather than against one another.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

#75. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.

Stephen Hawking

#76. Treachery," said the Mede.
"Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name.

Megan Whalen Turner

#77. I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair.

Jonah Goldberg

#78. You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

Jim Butcher

#79. President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war.

Tom Daschle

#80. 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

#81. Peace is war by other means.

Will Durant

#82. We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#83. Diplomacy has been exhausted .. Continued instability in the Balkans threatens important U.S. national interests,.

Tom Daschle

#84. Jon had seen the lie immediately for what it was: diplomacy. He had a feeling that, given the chance, Tom would hold him close every night. Instead, the first mate chose to distance himself so as not to interfere with the captain's affection for Jon. A sacrifice.

Bey Deckard

#85. Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.

Daniele Vare

#86. WikiLeaks is the 9/11 of diplomacy.

Franco Frattini

#87. Now, there are important rules in Fairyland, rules from which I shall one day be exempt, when my papers have been processed at last and I am possessed of the golden ring of diplomatic immunity.

Catherynne M Valente

#88. Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.

E.B. White

#89. There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.

John F. Kennedy

#90. Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should be understood as "state terror." Terrorism also serves as an excuse to avoid diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict.

Richard A. Falk

#91. She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun to figure out how her mind worked. But she was damn well going to live long enough for him to try.

Karen Chance

#92. Nothing can be changed in the system when the system itself is revolting against those who opposed violence.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#93. We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.

King Felipe VI

#94. Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Isaac Newton

#95. If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Sue Monk Kidd

#96. We have war when at least one of the partes to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#97. History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

Enoch Powell

#98. diplomacy is simply the name we have agreed to give to lying about national affairs. I

Mark Twain

#99. Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers

#100. When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Adolf Hitler