Diplomacy Quote by Henry Kissinger Download Open image ““When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.”” — Henry Kissinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diplomacy Negotiations Politicians Politics Talks Time
“You know, if this country just allowed a couple of hours between meetings, we might actually have time to achieve something.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share Image
“So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.” — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians.… — Henry T. Blackaby Copy Share Image
“Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and… — Stanley Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“You obviously haven’t lived in D.C. very long if you think two and a half minutes is too soon to talk politics.” — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
“When a meeting goes way too long always remember that some people need to talk, but some people need to go home.” — Jim Jennings Copy Share Image
“tend not to talk unless they have something to say and if they start talking about something they are interested in, they will often… — Harris Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“There is a fullness of time for things. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet. When to let things… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I have spoken to no one, not even my mother or Ray. I don't have the capacity for idle talk now. No, I want… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“New methods of accessing and communicating information unite regions as never before and project events globally—but in a manner that inhibits reflection, demanding of… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Like the United States, China thought of itself as playing a special role. But it never espoused the American notion of universalism to spread… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises. — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“In the Chinese version of exceptionalism, China did not export its ideas but let others come to seek them.” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“There is no time for patience - there is no time for diplomacy - there is no time for policies, legislations and meaningless paperwork.… — Abhijit Naskar 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
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