Diplomacy Quotations

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

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

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.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

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! An upper class, more educated person - they find a diplomatic way to tell you the thing. I love it when you just come heart to heart. That's the way I knew it coming up, so that's the way I like it.

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

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

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.

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.

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

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.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

When I came to office, in terms of diplomacy and national security, as well as the economy, Japan was in a very severe situation.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

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.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

I observe and remain silent.

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

We, humans are destined to go extinct or come close to diminishing. We break those who care about ideals, and promote the destruction of modern society. We harmonize domination, and scrutinize diplomacy and peace. In the end, we don't care about the outer reaches and global possibilities of happiness, we just care about what happens to ourselves.

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of Tony Blair and George W. Bush - all suggested a war was brewing.

Now that the international community is energized to deal with the issue, we believe the chance for diplomacy succeeding has improved.

Basically, the market is taking the view that since we've postponed Security Council action for a month, there's still a possibility for a resolution, they think diplomacy is still possible.

It clearly proves that diplomacy can win over the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

I think we got the diplomacy just about right the first time, but we've added new graphics, units, and technologies for the new Civs.

I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy

Our preference is to act through diplomacy in conjunction with friends and allies. ... Obviously, we retain the right to use force.

Our understanding is that a lot of behind-the-scenes diplomacy is going on with some of the countries that are not on the list.

Rights groups think the commission is too tame. On the other side, people think the commission should be a good child and be seen but not heard. They think effective diplomacy is quiet diplomacy.

that diplomacy is served, and order is restored to the universe.

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

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

Those centrifuges and that whole question of suspension was part of a deal between the Europeans and Iran to help to build confidence -- to suspend the program while diplomacy could act and hopefully build confidence in the international community of Iran's intentions,

We recognize the challenges we face in our public diplomacy effort. We are using all the tools at our disposal to ensure that foreign publics have an accurate understanding of American policies and values.

We recognize the challenges we face in our public diplomacy effort, ... We are using all the tools at our disposal to ensure that foreign publics have an accurate understanding of American policies and values.

The proposal to have self-rule in either side of Kashmir may forever remain a point for discussion in the back channel diplomacy between India and Pakistan.

Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of 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.

Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.

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

There is no diplomacy like candor.

We are coming to the litmus test in the next few weeks. Diplomacy is not just talking. Diplomacy has to be backed by pressure and, in extreme cases, by force.

This resolution is politically motivated since it is not based on any legal or technical grounds. The course of diplomacy was stopped by certain states and it is not clear that, following this resolution, how and where it could be resumed.

Both sides have boxed themselves into a corner. I think they were going through the motions. This dialogue may well be the final act of diplomacy before the curtain lowers for a referral vote.

The governor's comments speak for themselves. He came to Harrisburg to get things done, and through leadership, diplomacy and compromise, he has. A little frankness is always refreshing, I think.

Yes, there is still time for diplomacy but it's up to the Iranians to seize the opportunity," ()

We just feel that it's wrong. All it's doing is increasing the number of people that want to do our country harm by making more enemies than allies. I'm just convinced that this administration is less concerned with diplomacy and more concerned about showing the world its strength.

Diplomacy is still the way -- with the six-party talks. Everybody agrees on that. The next thing is to try and get everyone back to the table,

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

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts, ... Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

The United States has been obviously eager to refer it to New York, to the UN Security Council for the past three years, ... And it's been the EU diplomacy, and the EU-3 diplomacy in particular, that has forestalled that. Here, with the breakdown of an apparent agreement, the Europeans had promised to move forward with a referral. The votes haven't come behind the Europeans and the Americans on this, so they have really no recourse but to delay and buy time.

The secretary expressed his thanks for Mr. Jackson's concern, told him about the intensive diplomacy that's going on and said we would continue to use that channel.

A decision to stop (the visits) to achieve specific progress in East Asian diplomacy is possible, but he has his own particular philosophy that he upholds.

A fragile consensus has collapsed under the weight of the Sudan government's artful diplomacy campaign. It played chicken with the broad international community, and once again the international community drove off the road.

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.

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.

acts of one-sided diplomacy on the part of the Bush administration.

This administration has said there are three components to national security - diplomacy, defense and development. We see that diplomacy and defense are well taken care of, but development is the weakest tool in our kit. Yet that's where our long-term security lies.

There is now more energy behind the diplomacy than was usually the case in the first term.

This is a victory for all those who expressed their firm determination that U.N. Security Council resolutions must be respected. It is a victory for diplomacy and resolve,

It's a reflection that this administration increasingly recognizes the importance of the travel industry, both economically and as an enormous asset in our public diplomacy efforts.

It was a watershed for Indian diplomacy and showed the maturity and confidence with which we negotiated with the world's only superpower.

It's a very useful and necessary effort to begin reflection on how we are going to handle the diplomacy of the endgame.

Despite constant developments on the North Korean issue, diplomacy is the only way out,

The Israelis have been very serious in wanting diplomacy to succeed. They've been urgently trying to get us to get diplomacy working. The problem is, at some point they're going to say, 'The clock has run out, and we have to think of something else.

I just can't talk about what ideas we may be considering. We want to have some quiet diplomacy the next couple of days.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

We did drive them [Iran] to the negotiating table. And my successor, John Kerry, and President [Barack] Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.

The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other

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

WikiLeaks is the 9/11 of diplomacy.

We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.

Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.

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

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.

Diplomacy is living in state.

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

The effort to indict Saddam Hussein as a war criminal is now getting under way, and we are using our diplomacy to try to support the establishment of a war crimes commission on Iraq,

The challenge for our diplomacy lies in convincing our neighbors that India is an opportunity and not a threat. Far from being besieged by India, they have a vast, productive hinterland that would give their economies far greater opportunities for growth than if they were to rely on their domestic markets alone.

The discussions will continue. Right now, we're focused on the logistics, the diplomacy necessary to make sure that our crew can leave, according to the assurances the Chinese have given us. And then, a week from now, we'll take up these issues, including the very prompt return of our aircraft.

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

Among American universities, Boston College has played a unique role in preparing its graduates for careers in public service. In welcoming Secretary Rice, we seek to celebrate her commitment to diplomacy and public service as well as her distinguished career in the field of higher education.

War is failure of diplomacy.

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

In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.

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!

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

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

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

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.

The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible,.

There is no diplomacy like silence.