Able Quote by John Poindexter

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

— Kofi Annan

I would immediately rejoin the Paris Accords and reassert U.S. leadership in the critical process of global diplomacy.

— Joe Sestak

Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the…

— Wilhelm Reich

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will…

— Cyrus Vance

Diplomacy can be a frustrating thing. I think the strategy can work, so long as the force is robust and the rules of engagement…

— George W. Bush

While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.

— Kevin de Leon

If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.

— Freddie Mercury

We are desperately in need of the kind of smart diplomacy that has worked for America in the past. If you use force, it…

— Hillary Clinton

There is no question in my mind that if we summon our resources, both our leadership resources and all of the tools at our…

— Hillary Clinton

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I…

— Colin Powell

Everybody's still talking about diplomacy and I'm very hopeful that as long as we talk about diplomacy, as long as we're not talking about…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

— George W. Bush