Top 411 Diplomacy Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.
Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.
The Obama administration kind of shows how you can use diplomacy to bring the most important countries together and get the whole world on board.
It is truly appalling for Senator Mark Kirk to equate the Obama Administration's diplomacy with Nazi appeasement. As a Jewish-American, I am offended.
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely.
You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously.
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.
MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.
America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.
You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.
The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.
Putin has the ability to advance his interests in many different ways. Sometimes tactical diplomacy can help.
When I came to office, in terms of diplomacy and national security, as well as the economy, Japan was in a very severe situation.
I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.
I would immediately rejoin the Paris Accords and reassert U.S. leadership in the critical process of global diplomacy.
Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.
I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating.
Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.
Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.
The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.
In sport, as in science, business, and diplomacy, as Scots we understand that we benefit from the deep and diverse partnerships that make up the United Kingdom.
In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.
Beijing is on the move in Africa - using aid, diplomacy, weapons sales and Chinese ex pats in a bid to become the preeminent power in the region.
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.
Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.
...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.
There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.
There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score
The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed.
I'm resolved to be active on diplomacy as Japan further develops relationships based on trust and cooperation with countries including the U.S.
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.
The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.
I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy
As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits.
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.
By unleashing an active diplomacy on its nuclear activities, Iran has effectively neutralized the European and US policies,.
Diplomacy can be a frustrating thing. I think the strategy can work, so long as the force is robust and the rules of engagement are clear.
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.
Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.
