Diplomacy Quotes

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I observe and remain silent.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

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

War is failure of diplomacy.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

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

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

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

The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

I want justice to be upheld. I want all-out diplomacy.

You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.

I know no diplomacy save that of truth.

We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn.

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.

There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.

Diplomacy is living in state.

Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other.

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

WikiLeaks is the 9/11 of diplomacy.

Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.