Top 100 Quotes About Diplomacy
#2. When I came to office, in terms of diplomacy and national security, as well as the economy, Japan was in a very severe situation.
Shinzo Abe
#3. You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
Bill Vaughan
#4. Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.
Condoleezza Rice
#5. French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
Ernest Hemingway,
#6. The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
William Howard Taft
#7. Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#8. Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
Alvin Adams
#9. When diplomacy fails, whisper through Art and your message will echo for eternity.
Tom Althouse
#10. What a shame swear words aren't allowed in diplomacy.
Ayse Kulin
#11. 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
#12. The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible,.
Vladimir Putin
#13. This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.
Tom Daschle
#14. 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
#15. For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.
Jimmy Carter
#16. Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.
Rachael Yamagata
#17. Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice.
Benjamin Franklin
#18. An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.
Elliott Abrams
#19. When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
Madeleine Albright
#20. Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?
Ronald Reagan
#21. 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
#22. Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
Ellen Tauscher
#23. Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes fascinating reading, and will also be a prime source for scholars long into the future.
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
#24. In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.
Rand Paul
#25. Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.
James Ellis
#26. The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
Sheri S. Tepper
#27. In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.
Ananda Krishnan
#28. By unleashing an active diplomacy on its nuclear activities, Iran has effectively neutralized the European and US policies,.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#29. I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.
Stephen Lang
#30. I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.
Tom Lantos
#32. Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
Allen Boyd
#33. The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.
Paul C. Nagel
#34. Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.
John Gimlette
#35. The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.
Douglas Alexander
#36. I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.
Myrtle Reed
#37. Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
John Bolton
#38. Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
David Mitchell
#39. I have a plan. My plan is to not marry her. Diplomacy be damned. There. End of discussion.
Marissa Meyer
#40. Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.
Noam Chomsky
#41. Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.
Heather Brooke
#43. Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
David Mitchell
#44. I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.
John Poindexter
#45. Never in history have lies been such vital instruments of diplomacy and policy.
Max Hastings
#46. 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
#47. Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.
Joseph Cirincione
#48. And fuck diplomacy. Really, just kick that shit to the curb. This, she thought, is about what I want.
Thea Harrison
#49. Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.
George P. Bush
#50. Oversimplified perhaps, this in essence is the problem known to nineteenth-century diplomacy as the Eastern Question.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#51. I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
Douglas Feith
#52. Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
David Frost
#53. Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
Bill Vaughan
#54. Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real value of diplomacy in avoiding war. And I'd rather my students learned those lessons on the playground than on the battlefield.
Neil Gaiman
#55. Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.
Hillary Clinton
#56. First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.
Steven Van Zandt
#57. Father once said the real language of diplomacy was in the space between words.
Roshani Chokshi
#58. And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.
Frank Carlucci
#59. Your Highness, what do you call it when a high-ranking person lies right in your face?" the President asked with a wry smile. "Diplomacy.
Tom Clancy
#60. Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.
Lilia Shevtsova
#61. One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
Hillary Clinton
#62. Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.
John F. Kennedy
#63. 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
#64. Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.
Alexander Haig
#65. I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!
Jimmy Cliff
#67. Diplomacy be damned, Nate preferred to say what was on his mind. 'Yes, and Aladdin might fly out your ass on his magic carpet and take you for a spin too.
Teresa Schulz
#69. It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
Tom Clancy
#70. Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.
Frank Herbert
#71. The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.
Richard N. Haass
#72. You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
Kofi Annan
#73. History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.
Shigeru Yoshida
#74. Our nation must engage with the rest of the world. But to be successful, we must listen. Our interaction with the world must be a conversation, not a monologue ... these exchanges are a strategic pillar of our nation's public diplomacy.
Dina Powell
#75. Violence is the easy way out and it only leads to more violence. We need people in this world who are willing to find solutions through peace, through communication, honesty and diplomacy. World peace may seem impossible, but it's worth aiming for.
Demi Lovato
#77. 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
#78. In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.
Wesley Clark
#79. Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. Said
Mark Twain
#80. I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.
Hillary Clinton
#81. What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.
John Prendergast
#82. Diplomacy is also the art of postponing decisions until the problems resolve themselves.
Paulo Coelho
#83. We attach great importance to the peaceful development of cross-strait relations. But if our diplomatic relations is subject to China's goodwill, we will lose the autonomy of our diplomacy.
Tsai Ing-wen
#84. Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Daniel Pipes
#85. To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant
#86. This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. We've made clear our view, which is we support the Russian proposal. It's within the context of the EU diplomacy aimed at getting Iran to re-suspend its enrichment activities and return to negotiations.
Joseph Adam Ereli
#88. Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.
Michel Onfray
#89. Of course, it was the United States and Israel that had rejected diplomacy and the PLO that had been offering compromise for years, but Lewis's reversal of the facts was quite normal and unchallenged in the mainstream.
Noam Chomsky
#91. I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.
Ronan Farrow
#92. 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
#93. He will spit you and roast you with rosemary, and we will all sample your flesh tonight. Tomorrow you will be shat out into the snow.
Your diplomacy is bold and edgy, sir.
Kevin Hearne
#94. Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.
Roberto Bolano
#95. Politeness and diplomacy are responsible for more suffering and death than all the crimes of passion in history. Fuck politeness. Fuck diplomacy. Tell the truth.
Brad Blanton
#96. That's Irish diplomacy for you.
Huh?
The ability to tell someone to go to hell and make them happy to be going.
Gabrielle Evans
#97. People online will tell you what they really think - there's no diplomacy. They're honest; it's good to have the feedback immediately.
Giuseppe Zanotti
#98. War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
David Mamet
#99. Diplomacy is not a veiling of the truth. It is the ability to be sensitive to the truth.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#100. Words are some of the most powerful and important things I know ... Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger
and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.
Ani DiFranco
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