Quotes about Diplomacy
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
- George Clooney
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
- Wendell Berry
If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.
- Ronald Reagan
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
- Cicero
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
- Ronald Reagan
We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.
- George W. Bush
There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.
- Albert Einstein
We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.
- Barack Obama
My only hope was to be polite.
- Mark Vonnegut
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
- Mark Twain
But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.
- George W. Bush
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
- Zig Ziglar