Diplomacy Quotes - Page 12

• Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

  John Gimlette

  Thinking, Age, Impression

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.

  Rand Paul

  Reality, Self, Middle East

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think we can't be naive in dealing with the Russians or dealing with the Syrians. But at the same time, I think we could try to encourage - and I think this is what diplomacy should do - encourage the self-interests of all parties to believe that it is in their best interest to get evil actors or rogue actors such as Syria or Iran, if you try to have less belligerent and less bellicose behavior.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Believe, Thinking

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, news.stlpublicradio.org. September 11, 2013.

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• We did drive them [Iran] to the negotiating table. And my successor, John Kerry, and President [Barack] Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iran, President, Nuclear

  Source: time.com

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• We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.

  Jill Stein

  Law, Sides, Needs

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones that empower local communities to define progress, not have it sanctioned by others.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Two, Empowering, Community

  "Founder of Small Works Cameron Sinclair Afghanistan, Syria, and the Architecture of Empowerment". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Government, Media

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• We are coming to realise that foreign operations in today's world call for a total diplomacy ... Ambassadors can no longer be content with wining and dining, reporting, analysing and cautiously predicting.

  Chester Bowles

  Dining, World, Ambassadors

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• Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by Holywood, the world would have come together and addressed the biggest problem it ever had faced and delegates would have embraced each other, and it all would have been a good happy scene instead of the complete farce and debacle that it turned into - maybe in certain ways, an absolute low point for human diplomacy.

  Bill McKibben

  Should Have, Together, World

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• The Obama administration kind of shows how you can use diplomacy to bring the most important countries together and get the whole world on board.

  Chris Mooney

  Country, Important, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We got an international coalition [against Iran], and we imposed that. It was slow, patient diplomacy, nothing at all particularly headline-worthy. But then you got to the point where the negotiations - which I started and Secretary [John] Kerry completed - I think made the world safer.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Iran, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Military, Chance, Threat

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• Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it – indeed, the might of our military, the size of our economy, the influence of our diplomacy, and the creative energy of our people remain unrivaled. No, it's because as the world has changed, so too have the levers of power that can most effectively shape international affairs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Smart, People

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• Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid.

  Hamid-Reza Assefi

  Iran, Answers, Currents

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• Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before. In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.

  George F. Kennan

  Military, War, Fighting

  "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq" by Albert Eisele, historynewsnetwork.org. August 08, 2005.

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• The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget . . . in the final analysis . . . that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Military, America

  Ronald Reagan (1975). “The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan”

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• Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom.

  Roger Cohen

  Fall, Ideas, United States

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• Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the U.S. acts on its global strategy. For instance, Washington suddenly got closer to China in the early 1970s as part of its strategy against the Soviet Union.

  Sadako Ogata

  Japan, Perspective, Effort

  "Japan should be a peace broker, former UN refugee chief says". Interview with Hiroyuki Akita, asia.nikkei.com. August 19, 2015.

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• For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise. China is much bigger, richer, more powerful militarily, and has much better skill in diplomacy. They outdo us in every field. But they have no justice. We have placed our whole faith in truth and in justice. We have nothing else, in principle and in practice.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Real, Struggle

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Colin Powell

  Election

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• ...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.

  Jim Butcher

  Team, Mean, Tables

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.332, Penguin

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• The United States does not have a very good record in the Middle East. I think they have the best of intentions but I think the problem is that it's very difficult from Washington, or from Iowa or Nebraska to understand what is happening in this crazy part of the world. In some cases US diplomacy has been somewhat naive.

  Moshe Arens

  Crazy, Thinking, Iowa

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us such a world power. Hundreds of millions of people may never set foot in the United States, but thanks to you, they've experienced a small part of what makes our country special. They've learned something about our values. We have shaped a world culture through you...in a way that has made the world better.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Feet

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• Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't work together and society can't function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations.

  M. J. Ryan

  Patience, Heart, Order

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• Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Europe, Choices, Needs

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