Quotes about Diplomacy

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

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.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.

Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us.

Put an end to talk on dividing Jerusalem. There can be no negotiations about Jerusalem.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

I am President of all the people, good, bad, or indifferent, and as long as my opinions are known, ought perhaps to keep myself out of their squabbles.

Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.

It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.