Best 176 quotes in «diplomacy quotes» category

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

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

Diplomacy is not merely talking somebody into something; it's talking to somebody from a position of strength. You put your power on the table to open up the conversation; that's diplomacy.

Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid.

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.

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

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.

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

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

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

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

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

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

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

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

There is no diplomacy like silence.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

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.

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

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.