America Quote by Will Rogers

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

— John Prendergast

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

— James Reston

Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.

— Jesse Jackson

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We…

— Ron Paul

“❝Washington — perhaps as many global powers have done in the past — uses what I might call the “immaculate conception” theory of crises…

— Graham E. Fuller

For decades, allies have counted on the U.S. to step up to the plate to work with them to protect the shared values we…

— Mike Quigley

We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.

— Richard M. Nixon

Diplomacy: lying in state.

— Oliver Herford

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

— Will Rogers

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

— Ward Churchill

“diplomacy is simply the name we have agreed to give to lying about national affairs. I”

— Mark Twain

We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of…

— Jill Stein