Diplomacy Quotes - Page 4

• These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.

  Harold Nicolson

  Loyalty, Taken, Quality

  "Diplomacy". Book by Harold George Nicolson, chapter 3, p. 126, 1939.

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• Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Restraining

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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.

  William Howard Taft

  Ideas, Bullets, Administration

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress”

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• Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Mean, Elements, Pressure

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• Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

  Judy Biggert

  Leadership, Energy, World

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• Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Military, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

  Andrew Young

  Diplomats, Copiers, Died

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

  Albert J. Nock

  Secret, Bismarck

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• America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq

  Barbara Mikulski

  War, Responsibility, Iraq

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• The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

  Lajos Kossuth

  World, Radical Change, Management

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.1

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• Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

  Ellen Tauscher

  War, Order, Atmosphere

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• I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

  Stuart Symington

  Military, War, Believe

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

  Robert MacNeil

  Manners, Certain, Approach

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• This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

  Tom Daschle

  Peace, War, President

  "The Trouble With Senator Tom Daschle". www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2003.

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• Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously.

  George W. Bush

  People, Important, Our Words

  "Raw Data: Text of Bush Interview". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2003.

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• Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Fear

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

  George W. Bush

  Decision, President, Use

  George W. Bush at the second Presidential Debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• The president recognizes that funding global health is good for national security, domestic health and global diplomacy. Consequently, President Obama has steadily increased funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which was created by President Bush and has strong bipartisan support.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Strong, Support, President

  "The HIV/AIDS Fight Needs Cooperation, Not Division" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2010.

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• Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I’ve fought; talking is far better than fighting.

  Seth Moulton

  Fighting, Talking, Firsts

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Needed

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.173, Harlequin

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• Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strength, Peace, Thorough Knowledge

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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.

  George Eliot

  Men, Names, Virtue

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.230, Hayes Barton Press

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

  Clement Attlee

  War, Secret, Treaties

  "Who's Who in the New Parliament:Members and their pledges" edited by T.W. Walding, Philip Gee, London, (p. 35), 1922.

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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

  Needs, Window, Seeking

  "Iran Moves to Curb Hard-Liners" by Karl Vick, www.washingtonpost.com. October 8, 2005.

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

  John Bolton

  Doe, Ends, Interest

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