War is always a failure. It means we've failed in…

“There is no time for patience - there is no time for diplomacy - there is no time for policies, legislations and meaningless paperwork.…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— George W. Bush

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

— Anonymous

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

— Kelly Ayotte

Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us…

— Barack Obama

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…

— Cynthia P. Schneider

There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.

— John F. Kennedy

Russia may very well be front and center again in 2020 as they were in 2016 regarding interference in America's presidential election. But the…

— Richard Painter

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

— Noam Chomsky

“Expecting accountability from the UN system was akin to expecting a blind dog to catch a flying Frisbee.”

— Michael Soussan

Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong…

— Sukhwinder Singh

Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make…

— Stephen F. Hayes

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

— Barack Obama

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

— Otto von Bismarck

While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.

— Kevin de Leon