Diplomacy Quotes · Page 11

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

— Douglas Hurd

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

— John Roos

Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even…

— Richard Armitage

I've been a part of the 3 D's of our foreign policy, of defense, diplomacy, and development, and seen that in action.

— Andy Kim

In addition to working to repair our standing around the world by investing in diplomacy and development again, I look forward to…

— Dean Phillips

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

— Glenn Reynolds

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” Current”

— Aleron Kong "The Father of American LitRPG

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

— Kelly Ayotte

Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea…

— Henry A. Kissinger

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…

— Hassan Rouhani

“A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total…

— Henry Kissinger

Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to…

— Condoleezza Rice

We can pursue peaceful diplomacy with the Iranian regime while also continuing our maximum economic pressure campaign, while also defending ourselves... To…

— Morgan Ortagus

Trump has got to define what he seeks to achieve with Russia, and then use diplomacy and sometimes coercion to achieve those…

— Michael McFaul

Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid,…

— Anonymous

Throughout my career, from Jamaica to Nigeria, Pakistan to Switzerland, I've learned that effective diplomacy means more than shaking hands and staging…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

I don't think that anyone in the pages of 'War on Peace' is arguing that diplomacy is the replacement for military power.…

— Ronan Farrow

Diplomacy can be a frustrating thing. I think the strategy can work, so long as the force is robust and the rules…

— George W. Bush

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and…

— William Howard Taft

Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Daniel Pipes

“I knew nothing at all of the art of diplomacy, which I have since diagnosed as the ability to make the nastiest…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“Unless all other means have been exhausted, the battle is nothing more than a bar fight taking place in a room that…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I’ve fought; talking is far better than fighting.

— Seth Moulton

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

— Ambrose Bierce

People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they…

— Alice Bailey

“A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of…

— Geoffrey Household

America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.

— Robert M. Gates

Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“That's Irish diplomacy for you. Huh? The ability to tell someone to go to hell and make them happy to be going.”

— Gabrielle Evans

“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

There are some issues where we have common interests with Germany, there are some others that we don't... The diplomacy between good…

— Andrzej Duda

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally,

— Barack Obama

Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free…

— Ron Paul

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it…

— E. B. White

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

— Anonymous

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

— Michael Soussan

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

— Otto von Bismarck

“Diplomacy cannot thrive in an environment where ego overshadows ethics. Toxic leadership turns negotiations into battlegrounds and progress into casualties.”

— Abhysheq Shukla