All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Zhou Enlai

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
Barbara Mikulski

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.
Frank Carlucci

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Daniel Pipes

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.
Bo Bennett

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
John Bolton

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
Barbara Tuchman

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
Kofi Busia

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry A. Kissinger

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.
Edward Sapir

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
George W. Bush

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
Omar Bongo

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
Alvin Adams

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.
Stuart Symington

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