Quotes about Diplomacy

In practice, the new foreign policy, an effective Trump doctrine, was to reduce the board to three elements: powers we can work with, powers we cannot work with, and those without enough power whom we can functionally disregard or sacrifice. It was cold war stuff. And, indeed, in the larger Trump view, it was during the cold war that time and circumstance gave the United States its greatest global advantage. That was when America was great.

war alone is not the answer. We must also fight for the hearts and minds of those who would do us harm.

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.

To make peace with an enemy, one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes your partner.

Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.

Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land

Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”