Diplomacy Quote by Barry Goldwater Download Open image “The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.” — Barry Goldwater ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diplomacy Diplomats Doe Meetings Succeed Summit
Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less… — David Souter Copy Share Image
Summits [World Summit on the Information Society] are meant to help governments reach a global consensus on major issues which has proved elusive in… — David Souter Copy Share Image
For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
“It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.” — Mark Obmascik Copy Share Image
I don't think more mega-summits is the way to secure effective implementation. — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
“I am led to believe that any summit is achieved simply through a series of steps. However, what I’ve failed to recognize is that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time,… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in… — Barry Goldwater 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
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
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
There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Russia may very well be front and center again in 2020 as they were in 2016 regarding interference in America's presidential election. But the… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Expecting accountability from the UN system was akin to expecting a blind dog to catch a flying Frisbee.” — Michael Soussan Copy Share Image
Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong… — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image