“Sometimes, there is only a thin line between diplomacy and a lie.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“Tyranny turns us into liars, she thought, hating herself even as she applauded.” — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy. — Ananda Krishnan Copy Share Image
“War, they say, is the answer of those who have no arguments left.” — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters. — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
How does MINDEF intend to reduce uncertainties, enhance understanding, and improve coordination in the region and beyond through defence diplomacy apart from… — Low Thia Khiang Copy Share Image
You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
“When faced by an international conflict, forget diplomacy, forget statecraft, forget strategies and policies and ask yourself, what would a human do… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We shall achieve more by blasting politicians into space, than by blasting satellites to other planets. They'll leave earth as warmongers, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Pierre J. Huss pleased me with his comment: "Thanks to him (Romulo) the United Nations has 'independence' in its Charter, one of… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Part of diplomacy, the hard work of diplomacy is trying to extract whatever concessions you can get, and giving something the other… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Now, there are important rules in Fairyland, rules from which I shall one day be exempt, when my papers have been processed… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has had anything to do with the higher diplomacy is aware that diplomatic language stands in a class by itself.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“She is opinionated, as most of us are, but you won’t find yourself impaled on her arguments; she doesn’t charge at you… — Carrie Adams Copy Share Image
“The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The presidency of the United Nations was not thrust upon me overnight. I had to grow up to the measurements it demanded… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Normally for Gabrielle, diplomacy was a tool best left in the box.” — Bruce Rousseau Copy Share Image
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice Doggie!" till you can find a stick. — Wynn Catlin Copy Share Image
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten — Mark Twain Copy Share Image