War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability. — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources… — John Poindexter Copy Share Image
Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy. — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
I don't think a country needs to bypass diplomacy, they don't need to attack us under the radar. — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
“He wouldn't even dance with Levana at the stupid ball if he could help it—to hell with diplomacy.” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council.… — Hamid-Reza Assefi 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
“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
We got an international coalition [against Iran], and we imposed that. It was slow, patient diplomacy, nothing at all particularly headline-worthy. But… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Imagine how difficult this issue would be if Iran had a nuclear weapon. And so therefore it's up to the international community,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
At present, the United States, with over 700 foreign military bases, navies in every ocean, a programme to militarise space, and drone… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“To explain is to disbelieve. Every philosophy is a diplomacy dressed up as eternity… Like diplomacy, it has no real substance, existing… — Fernando Pessoa 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
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Louella remarked that when foreign nations had intercourse with this country they knew they had been intercoursed.” — Jack Woodford Copy Share Image
The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion. — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy. — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy be damned, Nate preferred to say what was on his mind. ‘Yes, and Aladdin might fly out your ass on his… — Teresa Schulz Copy Share Image
The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Beijing is on the move in Africa - using aid, diplomacy, weapons sales and Chinese ex pats in a bid to become… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
I would immediately rejoin the Paris Accords and reassert U.S. leadership in the critical process of global diplomacy. — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American? — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.” — Paul Berman Copy Share Image
We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without… — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier… — Ptahhotep Copy Share Image
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
![“We got an international coalition [against Iran], and we imposed that. It was slow, patient diplomacy, nothing at all particularly headline-worthy. But then you got to the point where the negotiations - which I started and Secretary [John] Kerry completed - I think made the world safer.” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/hillary-clinton-51_coalitions_we-got-an-international-coalition-agains_2256763.jpg)
