Diplomacy Quotes
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I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.
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The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.
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For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.
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The programs supported by the International Affairs Budget are as essential to our national security as defense programs. Development and diplomacy protect our nation by addressing the root causes of terrorism and conflict. But it's not just about security. By building new markets overseas for American products, the International Affairs Budget creates jobs and boosts the economy here at home.
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History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.
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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.
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I don't think a country needs to bypass diplomacy, they don't need to attack us under the radar.
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Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.
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The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.
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Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.
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American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.
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We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.
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We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.
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When diplomacy ends, War begins.
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In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
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I've worked for four presidents, and I've concluded that almost nothing is inevitable. History is to a significant extent the result of the interaction of personalities and ideas. And so I don't believe war between the U.S. and China is in any way inevitable, and it's well within the province of diplomacy and statecraft to avoid it.
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Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.
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I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.
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Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.
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Indeed, the key to all diplomacy was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing. Nations were like individuals, requiring cultivation and the paying of respect.
