Diplomacy Quotes · Page 2

Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

— Andrew Young

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth

— Arthur Goldberg

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

— Mohamed ElBaradei

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

— Trygve Lie

Diplomacy can and will matter; little is inevitable in international relations.

— Richard N. Haass

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

— Condoleezza Rice

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Anonymous

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that…

— Stephen Lang

In the corridors of diplomacy people  gradually tend to lose their capacity to distinguish between what is important and what isn't.

— Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

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…

— Andrew Young

We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter…

— King Felipe VI

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs,…

— Barack Obama

“Smoking kills, because people buy cigarettes. Alcohol kills, because people buy alcohol. War kills, because people buy war.”

— Abhijit Naskar

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the…

— Hillary Clinton

Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all…

— Bill Vaughan

I think all of our experience with (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless…

— Tony Blair

Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation…

— Roger Cohen

“Diplomacy, if conducted sensibly, is a matter of small gains offset by small losses, an attempt to maintain a state of equilibrium…

— William S. Maltby

Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing…

— Barack Obama

“It is easy for a double faced men to live in a society of double faces. Transparent individuals will definitely find it…

— Fahad Basheer

Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it – indeed,…

— Hillary Clinton

[I am] saddened, saddened, that this president [Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to go to war. Saddened…

— Tom Daschle

“Yes, Cabbage: prison diplomacy. It’s called offering the newcomer a very warm welcome. You can tell Mares that I made lots of…

— Jonathan Dunne

“Your name?" George asked him directly. He had probably seen the man a dozen times before yet did not know anything about…

— Mette Ivie Harrison

“When, in May, tensions reached a high point, London warned Berlin that if it attacked Czechoslovakia and the French were embroiled as…

— Madeleine Albright

The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations,…

— Shimon Peres

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest…

— Horace Mann

“Kalau saya mengatakan tadi ada pertautan antara politic, war, and diplomacy, Saudara pasti pernah mendengar bahwa war is a continuation of politic…

— SBYudhoyono

“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

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really…

— Hillary Clinton

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

— S.M. Stirling

Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously.

— George W. Bush

Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.

— Hugh Dalton

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

— Joseph Stalin

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

— Frank Herbert

“Diplomacy is the art of letting other people have your way.”

— Daniele Varè

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”

— Isaac Newton