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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.
- Barack Obama
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.
- Martin Van Buren
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
- Cicero
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
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Put an end to talk on dividing Jerusalem. There can be no negotiations about Jerusalem.
- Eli Yishai
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
- Grover Cleveland
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.
- Grover Cleveland
Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.
- Pope Benedict XVI
It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
- Joe Biden