Best Quote by Mark Esper

The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed.

— Condoleezza Rice

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in…

— Mahmoud Abbas

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and…

— Barbara Mikulski

Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

— Glenn Reynolds

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

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

— George W. Bush

Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker…

— David Mitchell

It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.

— John Prendergast

Diplomacy can and will matter; little is inevitable in international relations.

— Richard N. Haass