Diplomacy Quotes
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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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.
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Diplomacy was a long game.
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I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.
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I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.
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Acts of one-sided diplomacy on the part of the Bush administration.
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For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
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Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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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.
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Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.
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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.
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.
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Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.
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Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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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.
