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Diplomacy Quotes

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

Authors on Diplomacy Quotes: Benjamin Disraeli Andrew Young Barack Obama Mohamed ElBaradei George W. Bush Henry A. Kissinger Robert MacNeil Colin Powell Ernest Hemingway Margaret Sanger S.M. Stirling John F. Kennedy Karl Kraus Ambrose Bierce Lincoln Chafee Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Condoleezza Rice Frank Herbert Rachael Yamagata E. V. Lucas John Prendergast Ilona Andrews Jimmy Cliff Oliver Herford Brent Scowcroft Charles Stross Maria V. Snyder Vladimir Putin Julian Burnside Harold MacMillan Walt Whitman Rostow Joe Klein Napoleon Bonaparte
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In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
Thomas R. Pickering

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

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

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I observe and remain silent.
Elizabeth I

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

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Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
Margaret Sanger

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

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

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There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. Lucas

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There is no diplomacy like silence.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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War is failure of diplomacy.
John Dingell

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

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

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

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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
Andrew Young

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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!
Jimmy Cliff

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

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

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

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

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I want justice to be upheld. I want all-out diplomacy.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

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

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

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

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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi

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We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.
Ichiro Ozawa

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

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

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Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn.
Maria V. Snyder

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Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.
George P. Bush

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

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

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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.
Andrew Young

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

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

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

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Diplomacy is living in state.
Oliver Herford

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Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other.
George W. Bush

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

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

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

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

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

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

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WikiLeaks is the 9/11 of diplomacy.
Franco Frattini

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Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.
Colin Powell