Diplomacy Quotes - Page 5

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

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Diplomats, Favourite, Archaeology

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• Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Fall

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

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• We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Thinking, Hands, Cards

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• China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Development, World, Common

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• WikiLeaks is the 9/11 of diplomacy.

  Franco Frattini

  Wikileaks

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• Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

  Margaret Sanger

  Diplomats, Facts

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Consistently

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• We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.

  Ichiro Ozawa

  Asian, Needs

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

  Ali Larijani

  Iran, Ends, Council

  "Iran nuclear crisis sent to security council" by Ewen MacAskill, Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.

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• Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.

  Luisa Morgantini

  War, Needs, Way

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• I believe it is peace for our time.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Peace, Time, War

  Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech in front of 10 Downing St., eudocs.lib.byu.edu. September 30, 1938.

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• If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Usa, America

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• Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

  David Mitchell

  War, Views, Long

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.443, Random House Group

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• In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.

  Madeleine Albright

  Cutting, Loss, Winning

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• Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

  Mario Puzo

  Hate, Hatred, Enemy

  "Fictional character: Michael Corleone". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other.

  George W. Bush

  Interesting, Getting To Know Each Other, Knows

  "Crawford Ranch Serves as Diplomatic Retreat". www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2005.

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• Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

  Frederick The Great

  Military, Interesting, Might

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• Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, War, Writing

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Language, Bureaucracy

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2756, Simon and Schuster

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• Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something about, you really have difficulty unless the international community really mobilizes.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Community, Sometimes, I've Learned

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  E. V. Lucas

  Candor

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• He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

  George P. Shultz

  Inspirational, Travel, Commitment

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

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Speak

  "Children of Dune".

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• People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.

  Alice Bailey

  Wise, Honesty, Reality

  Alice Bailey (1934). “A Treatise on White Magic: Or, The Way of the Disciple”, Lucis Pub

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• Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Talking, Sake, Ifs

  Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, delivered 23 January 2008, Davos, Switzerland

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