Best 176 quotes in «diplomacy quotes» category

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

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

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

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

I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

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

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.

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

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.

Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

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.

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

WikiLeaks is the 9/11 of diplomacy.

A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate.

A diplomatic statement ... is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it.

A successful ambassador has to bring the bacon home without spilling the beans.

Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were convicted at Nuremberg, including Hitler's former envoy to the Vatican, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, who was found guilty of planning aggression against Czechoslovakia and committing atrocities against the Jewish people. On the same day, the State of Israel celebrated its first Passover seder and the United Nations, still meeting in those days at Flushing Meadow in Queens, voted to consider the Jewish state's application for membership. In Damascus, eleven newspapers were closed by the regime of General Hosni Zayim. In America, the National Committee on Alcoholism announced an upcoming 'A-Day' under the non-uplifting slogan: 'You can drink—help the alcoholic who can't.' ('Can't'?) The International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled in favor of Britain in the Corfu Channel dispute with Albania. At the UN, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko denounced the newly formed NATO alliance as a tool for aggression against the USSR. The rising Chinese Communists, under a man then known to Western readership as Mao Tze-Tung, announced a limited willingness to bargain with the still-existing Chinese government in a city then known to the outside world as 'Peiping.' All this was unknown to me as I nuzzled my mother's breast for the first time, and would certainly have happened in just the same way if I had not been born at all, or even conceived. One of the newspaper astrologists for that day addressed those whose birthday it was: There are powerful rays from the planet Mars, the war god, in your horoscope for your coming year, and this always means a chance to battle if you want to take it up. Try to avoid such disturbances where women relatives or friends are concerned, because the outlook for victory upon your part in such circumstances is rather dark. If you must fight, pick a man! Sage counsel no doubt, which I wish I had imbibed with that same maternal lactation, but impartially offered also to the many people born on that day who were also destined to die on it.

Aunque muchos hemos criticado las sucesivas intervenciones militares de los Estados Unidos en la región, no se ha tomado en cuenta el hecho irrebatible de que, en algunas ocasiones, pocas pero significativas, fueron los gobiernos latinoamericanos los que promovieron una acción unilateral norteamericana, para evitarse las molestias, costo y trabajo de una acción diplomática y militar conjunta. Considero penoso que cuando se produjo la invasión a Santo Domingo, el presidente Leoni de Venezuela fue el único jefe de Estado latinoamericano que protestó.

A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy.

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow.

Building relationships on a global scale requires putting human beings on the ground in regions all over the world—and only the Army has the manpower to do this.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.

But people misunderstand warfare and think it is an end unto itself. But on the international stage, war is nothing more than another tool of diplomacy. If your country doesn’t have a credible, powerful military force capable of bringing pain, death, and destruction to an enemy, then your diplomats can’t get much done, because you simply aren’t powerful—there’s no threat of pain they can wield. That’s why the western Pacific island nation of Nauru doesn’t have a seat on the UN Security Council. Not recognizing this principle is shortsighted (no disrespect intended to the fine people of Nauru).

Convince and enemy, convince him that he's wrong, is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long. A simple act of faith, is reason over might, To blow up his children would only prove him right.

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.

A diplomat who says “yes” means “maybe", a diplomat who says “maybe" means “no”, and a diplomat who says “no” is no diplomat.

Agreements in the organizations of world power are never reached on the floor. They are made in the delegates' lounge and corridors long before the voting begins.

Americans, being a moral people, want their foreign policy to reflect the values we espouse as a nation. But Americans, being a practical people, also want their foreign policy to be effective.

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

Are you guys really arguing over where to eat dinner?" "It's one of the more savage tools in the diplomatic arsenal.

As far as I know, only politicians can make this kind of miracle staying more than 30 years of their entire life lying or hiding from the electors what really happen behind the political curtain of our status quo. This is one of the rare cases that a politician can swear in front of any deity or authority without any hesitation: “I really appreciate your ignorance or indifference about politics. It’s a blessing for me in my lifetime”.

At one end of the national spectrum is white, shining peace—that city-on-a-hill concept. At the other end is black, raging, savage war at the foot of that hill. The space between is the gray zone where the haze of diplomacy and combat meet and bleed into one another. That’s where the CIA works.

Auch wenn zwei Staaten in Deutschland existieren, sind sie doch füreinander nicht Ausland; ihre Beziehungen zueinander können nur von besonderer Art sein." ("Even though two states in Germany exist, they are not foreign countries to each other—their relations with each other can only be of a special kind.") First Inaugural Address as West German Chancellor, October 28, 1969

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.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

China, the nation which suppressed every citizen in the country who has a different opinion to the government while the rulers sneak “peacefully” into every market in wider world of Diverse cultures.

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