Amount Quote by Robert MacNeil

The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other

— George W. Bush

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

— Sheri S. Tepper

“Diplomacy is the ability to manage delicate situations, especially involving people from different cultures, and certainly from differing opinions. Leaders need to be able…

— J Oswald Sanders

Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn.

— Maria V. Snyder

Throughout my career, from Jamaica to Nigeria, Pakistan to Switzerland, I've learned that effective diplomacy means more than shaking hands and staging photo ops.…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

— Daniele Vare

Diplomacy is not merely talking somebody into something; it's talking to somebody from a position of strength. You put your power on the table…

— Daniel Fried

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

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

— Charlie Huston

Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you…

— Richard Armitage

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say

— Anonymous

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

— Isaac Goldberg