Advocating Quote by Richard N. Haass

There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined…

— Colin Powell

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

— Robin Hobb

Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster.

— Jill Stein

I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.

— Valerie Plame

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

— Lajos Kossuth

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

— Lester B. Pearson

The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.

— Marcel Proust

I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time…

— Valerie Plame

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

— Richard N. Haass

As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser…

— Jason Stearns

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

— Noah Feldman

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