Diplomacy Quotes · Page 8

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior."- Hun, A. T.”

— Robert Lynn Asprin

Prime Minister Abe's leadership diplomacy was truly amazing. I don't think I can match that.

— Yoshihide Suga

President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war.

— Tom Daschle

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

— Ambrose Bierce

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

— Dennis Ross

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

— Isaac Goldberg

Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

— Alexander Haig

I believe in diplomacy; I don't believe in talking to... that talking to Iran somehow constitutes a concession or a favour.

— Richard N. Haass

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

— Kofi Annan

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

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

— Najib Razak

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

— Lajos Kossuth

Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of…

— Jonathan Turley

You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he…

— Dmitry Peskov

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

Even in the best of times, the United States' ability to influence events in faraway places is limited. The tools we have,…

— Anne Applebaum

It has become clear that America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long…

— Robert M. Gates

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its…

— Elliott Abrams

At the State Department, where I oversaw our human rights diplomacy, I often confronted dictatorships like China about their censorship of the…

— Tom Malinowski

Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, ..…

— Alain Juppe

[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

With a group of people, it's easer to say, I want this, this and this. It's different with the soloists, because they…

— Laurence Equilbey

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy…

— Frank Carlucci

The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is…

— Ronald Reagan

“Balance-of-power diplomacy was less a choice than an inevitability. No state was strong enough to impose its will; no religion retained sufficient…

— Henry Kissinger

The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but…

— Noam Chomsky

And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the…

— Barack Obama

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

As a longtime career guy, I like quiet diplomacy behind closed doors. This is not what we're getting with Donald Trump. At…

— James Franklin Jeffrey

After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's…

— Zoe Leonard

Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by…

— Bill McKibben

“What's the use in being diplomatic? I'd rather just pull my weapon and wing it.”

— C.J. Redwine

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

— Henry Wotton

Public diplomacy was an effective Cold War weapon.

— Antony Blinken

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

— Charles de Gaulle

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

— Brent Scowcroft

“A successful ambassador has to bring the bacon home without spilling the beans.”

— Carlos P. Romulo

“The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method.”

— James Aldridge

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

— Will Durant