Diplomacy Quotes · Page 9

Engaging in diplomacy with Iran and putting an end to their nuclear weapons program was the right thing to do.

— Jan Schakowsky

The Obama administration kind of shows how you can use diplomacy to bring the most important countries together and get the whole…

— Chris Mooney

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

— Thomas Friedman

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward…

— Caskie Stinnett

“I think there is a substantial difference between hypocrisy and diplomacy: hypocrisy is not saying things, diplomacy is knowing how to say…

— Luigina Sgarro

“Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious…

— Anonymous

As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits.

— Sanjaya Baru

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

— Patty Jenkins

Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war…

— Dick Gephardt

The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never…

— Ronald Reagan

Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all…

— Heather Brooke

In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be…

— Richard Holbrooke

From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics…

— Brian Boitano

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of…

— Ronald Reagan

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of…

— William Penn

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you…

— Eddie Vedder

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong…

— Bo Bennett

“The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult…

— Henry Kissinger

Mr. Tillerson's obsession with downsizing our diplomacy has colored his time at the State Department.

— Antony Blinken

Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners,…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately…

— Alvin Adams

Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.

— Lilia Shevtsova

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

— John Roos

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

— W. Averell Harriman

When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a…

— Madeleine Albright

Every country has its own diplomacy. Being part of Europe doesn't mean giving up one's independence or no longer being able to…

— Emmanuel Macron

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that…

— Hans Eysenck

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as…

— Ambrose Bierce

...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in…

— Jim Butcher

And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they…

— John Hagee

“It would assume that bilateral problems could be worked out through goodwill, active diplomacy and transparency rather than suspicions and a search…

— Graham E. Fuller

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our…

— Judy Biggert

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

— Thom Mayne

“Well, Colonel, there is diplomacy and there is reality. Our ambassador represents diplomacy. I represent reality. And the reality is we don't…

— Stephen Kinzer

You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to…

— Bill Vaughan

I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing…

— Jonah Goldberg

“It's a time-honored truism of diplomacy that the most resented epithet is the one most accurately depicting the deficiencies of the recipient.”

— keith laumer

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

At times I watch the news and see they talkin' 'bout diplomacy and they ain't got a clue my niggas ain't got…

— J Cole