Diplomacy Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  William Penn

  Lying, Answers, May

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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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.

  Tom Ridge

  Jobs, Home, Roots

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• Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

  Dean Acheson

  Inspirational, Party, Agree To Disagree

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• We will direct every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war - to the destruction and to the defeat of the global terror network.

  George W. Bush

  War, Mean, Law

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

  Hans Eysenck

  World, Matter, Facts

  Hans Eysenck (2017). “Rebel with a Cause”, p.129, Routledge

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• It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  War, Power, Usa

  "Unvanquished: A U.S. - U.N. Saga". Book by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1999.

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• I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely important that we get our message out, but it's also the case that we should not have a monologue with other people. It has to be a conversation, and you can't do that without exchanges and openness.

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Important, Messages

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• When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Iran, Effort, Nuclear

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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.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Art, Nice

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• As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and resigning in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war, I firmly believe war does not resolve political issues.  We must work diligently to force the governments of our nations to use diplomacy, not weapons.

  Ann Wright

  War, Believe, Army

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

  George P. Bush

  Gardening, Aspect, Underrated

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• It has become clear that America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long - relative to what we spend on the military, and more important, relative to the responsibilities and challenges our nation has around the world.

  Robert M. Gates

  Military, Responsibility, America

  Speech to U.S. Global Leadership Campaign (Washington, D.C.), July 15, 2008.

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• The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Strong, Giving, United States

  Condoleezza Rice's remarks on Iran, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2006.

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• Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Kings, Years, Support

  "Histories" by Diodorus Siculus, 16.95.1-2,

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• Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.

  James Ellis

  Government, Hands, Justice

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• There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

  George W. Bush

  Army, Punishment, Promise

  "Governor George W. Bush - 'A Distinctly American Internationalism'". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, www.globalsecurity.org. November 19, 1999.

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• The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Rights, Doors

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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

  Madeleine Albright

  Tools, Said, Pins

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• 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

  Optimistic, Government, Numbers

  "Market failures" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• I'm not saying that you need a State Department that looks like the litigation department of a major law firm. But you need people who are not afraid to make the case for the United States, who are not afraid to stand their ground, not afraid to be isolated in international organizations when that's the correct approach for our diplomacy. This is a cultural change that has to be effected through incentive systems, promotion systems, career training systems. This is not something that you can do with the stroke of a magic wand, it's going to take years to make this change.

  John Bolton

  Years, Law, Careers

  Source: humanevents.com

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• I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost much if not all of the utopian thinking about international politics and diplomacy expressed in his Model Treaty of 1776 and became much more cynical about the world.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Thinking, Cynical, World

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I think that there is a particular mindset that was on display in the run-up to the Iraq war that continues to this day. Some of the folks who were involved in that decision either don't remember what they said or are entirely unapologetic about the results, but that views the Middle East as a place where force and intimidation will deliver on the security interests that we have, and that it is not possible for us to at least test the possibility of diplomacy.

  Barack Obama

  Running, War, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.

  Hugh Dalton

  Mad, Gone, Unilateralism

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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.

  Richard N. Haass

  War, Believe, Personality

  "Trump's No Isolationist. Is That a Good Thing?". Interview With Tobin Harshaw, www.bloomberg.com. January 13, 2018.

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• How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?

  Janeane Garofalo

  Patriotism, Debate, Twisted

  "Actors promote virtual protest march", www.cnn.com. February 19, 2003.

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