Bluff Quote by Anne Applebaum

Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the…

— Rudy Giuliani

Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

— Mona Charen

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

— Margaret Sanger

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

— Jalal Talabani

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible…

— John Keegan

I'm not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff…

— Bjork

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass…

— George Ayittey

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Kofi Annan

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

— Noah Feldman

I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.

— Jeremy Corbyn

The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.

— Richard N. Haass