Diplomacy Quote by Richard Holbrooke Download Open image “Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.” — Richard Holbrooke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diplomacy Endless Jazz Like Peacebuilding Theme Variation Variations
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!"... till you can find a rock. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way. — Daniele Vare Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues. — John Roos Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at… — Bo Bennett Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” Current” — Aleron Kong "The Father of American LitRPG Copy Share Image
It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
There are certain kinds of second-tier confrontations which the U.S. does not need to get directly involved in. However, even in the second tier… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two,… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
You will never catch up with the spread of AIDS no matter how much money, no matter how many antiretrovirals are put into the… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are… — Richard Holbrooke 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
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