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Tag Name "Diplomacy" (191)

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Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages legitimizes its outcomes gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
David Mitchell
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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the U.S. acts on its global strategy. For instance, Washington suddenly got closer to China in the early 1970s as part of its strategy against the Soviet Union.
Sadako Ogata
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We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.
Walt Whitman Rostow
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson
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Diplomacy: lying in state.
Oliver Herford
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Moliere
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Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.
Ron Paul
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In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.
Ilona Andrews
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them they are notable measures of directions for human life you have much in little they save time in speaking and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
William Penn
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant
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Tact is kind diplomacy is useful euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining
Julian Burnside
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If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.
Jon Stewart
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America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.
Robert M. Gates
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Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.
Ali Larijani
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There is no diplomacy like silence.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
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One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
Hillary Clinton
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Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.
Benjamin Netanyahu
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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.
George W. Bush
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When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.
Condoleezza Rice
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Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.
Hillary Clinton
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Trump has got to define what he seeks to achieve with Russia, and then use diplomacy and sometimes coercion to achieve those ends. Right now, aside from this fight with ISIS, which I would underscore, you know, the Obama administration has been trying to fight ISIS with Russia for several years now.
Michael McFaul
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We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.
Jill Stein
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