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Tag Name "Diplomacy" (191)

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn
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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
James Buchan
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With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and militarily. So when people ask what's the best course of action for the U.S.-China relationship, I can give you ten academic responses. But the reality is we need to rebuild our core.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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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.
Elliott Abrams
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. Lucas
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle
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Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
Iain Pears
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All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Zhou Enlai
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The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.
William Howard Taft
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Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.
Joseph Conrad
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Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government' whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.
Evgeny Morozov
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If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
Benjamin Netanyahu
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Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.
John Gimlette
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Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.
Alexander Haig
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Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.
Judy Biggert
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
Karl Kraus
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We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out that by working with Iran on this nuclear deal, we were better able to address other issues.
Barack Obama
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What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.
John Prendergast
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We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.
George W. Bush
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You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.
Dmitry Peskov
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diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce
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We've said to the Iranians all along . . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us.
Barack Obama
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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
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Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.
Glenn Reynolds
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