Diplomacy Quotes

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

Art, Nice, Rock

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

War, Soldiers, Week

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

War, Week, Fall

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.
Hillary Clinton

Today, America, Fair

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

Government, State, Media

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.
Hillary Clinton

Different, Open

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

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

Time, Saying, Wrong

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.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing, Few, Rules

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

Doubt, Words, America

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

Art, Nothing, Half

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.
Andrew Jackson

Law, Country, Door

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

Art, Else, Somebody

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

Said, Nobody, Tool

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

Peace, End, Giving

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

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn

War, Failure, Represents

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

End, Interests, Advance

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
Dee Dee Myers

Leadership, Children, Football

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
Dee Dee Myers

Trying, Same, Serious

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

Nature, Government, Science

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

Person, Making, Stop

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

Good, Learn, Manners

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

Power, Old, Secret

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

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
Carlos Fuentes

Yourself, Fight, Writing

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

Smart, Nothing, Done

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

Power, End, Between

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

Science, Once, Language

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

Change, Time, Place

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