Diplomacy Quotes Page 2

Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts.

Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

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.

But for us, in Syria, we have principles.

We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

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

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

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

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

A constructive approach to diplomacy doesnt mean relinquishing ones rights.

It means engaging with ones counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

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?

Diplomacy: lying in state.

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

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

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight.

We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

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

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.

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

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.

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

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

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

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.

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

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.

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.