"Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a…" — Richard Holbrooke

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— Richard Holbrooke

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27 Quotes by Richard Holbrooke

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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the…
A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of…
Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other…
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws…
Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect,…
There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and…
I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I…
Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States…
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a…
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience…
The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the…

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More Diplomacy Quotes

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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. — Walter Bagehot
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. — Tony Benn
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. — Otto von Bismarck
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one… — Ambrose Bierce
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. — John Bolton
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one… — James Buchan
Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy. — Madeleine Albright
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America. — George W. Bush
In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid. — Lincoln Chafee
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. — Hillary Clinton
I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of… — Hillary Clinton

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