Quotes about Diplomacy

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

means seeing both sides of the story and working towards a mutually beneficial situation for everyone.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)

I want to keep the peace. I want to be gentle, not confrontational.

remember not every face-to-face confrontation needs a verbal response

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.