Diplomacy Quote by Barry Goldwater

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

— Barry Goldwater

I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year process, not…

— David Souter

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying…

— Norman Geras

“Thinking you will succeed does not make you succeed.”

— Jesse Gaag

“What is this,a summit meeting?" Alan demanded as he strode down the hall. "It's one thing to be the advance man," he continued as…

— Nora Roberts

Of course there are collaborations. But in official meetings with Western diplomats from the US and the European Union, the major issues of our…

— Yoweri Museveni

I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me…

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Isaac Goldberg

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing…

— Will Rogers

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

— David Mitchell

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see…

— Noah Feldman