Diplomacy Quotes

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.

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.

Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

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.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.

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.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.